Vision of school equipment
by Rudi Floren (BvA)
The Facts
Technical progress is still going on. In the future computers will be shrunk to tiny machines, as small as credit cards and they will be very fast.
But what happens, if no one has enough money to buy these tiny machines? What can we do, if schools haven´t got enough money? A child goes to school from the age of 6 to 18. In these years the pupil will get a lot of contact with computers. But what happens when the pupil works with school computers that are 6 years old ?
Yes, this child will be disadvantaged compared to pupils who work with the latest technology.
How to avoid that?
To avoid these disadvantages the schools need more money to buy the newest computers. One actualization of computer hardware per year is enough, I think.
There are several ways to get the hardware up to date.
- The first option is to buy whole computers.
- The second is to buy some parts of hardware and put them in.
To do this, schools need a lot of money. But how do they get that?
- One option to get this money is to sell the old whole computers to pupils or their parents.
- The other one is to sell old hardware to 3rd world countries.
My personal opinion?
I think that in the future a school can have many IT equipment, like ‘cloud computing ¹’ from all over the world, so every pupil can complete his homework from home and learn at home and his results should be saved on the school’s server.
cloud computing ¹ = Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing)