Criteria B – Laptops in Schools

All laptops are miniaturized desktop computers where it needs to be weighing less, fit in a compact space, conserve electricity, and produce less heat than Desktop computers.
During the development of the laptops, which is continuing till this day, processor have became faster and smaller leading to longer battery life and stronger performances. This also led to fewer loading times for students to deal with wasting less time of their studies.

Laptops are becoming much smaller than in the past, students who are really physically challenged who were not able to carry their bags and laptops, can now buy 1.2 kilo laptops which are available at retail. These laptops excel in mobile technology, the smaller the laptops also are more comfortable for the students as they are cheaper, colder, lighter, and run longer battery life.

The development of wireless technology expanded the mobility of the laptops. Wireless access to this involves the wireless adapter sending a radio signal to the service, then there is connection established with the service provides, after selecting a website the wireless adapter send a request to the gateway server using the network established. Which then the gateway retrieve the data from internet servers and sent which is sent to the laptop by http format. The laptop then views the website just as a DSL cable. This opened the doors for students to access the internet and do their research in class, however this also lead to distraction habits, such as opening irrelevant websites and online gaming.

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Criteria A

It is arguable whether the use of laptop provides education a new dimension in research and making notes or does it distract the student in accessing irrelevant websites, such as Youtube. There are no limitations in using a laptop at school; every website is accessible, allowing the student’s freedom to access the web in the middle of the lesson. This raises the ethical issue of policies and standards, which is the biggest issue in using a laptop in school. Many teachers are aware of the students having freedom to use their laptops in the lesson inappropriately.

Technology is an important aspect in education, there for there is the need of laptops in school to expand and give the student an electronic library which will be able in the lesson. This is a great example of policies and standard as it is difficult to prevent the students from using the internet appropriately and use it solitary for education. Most of the students in the school uses it for research, but many may used to play games, use messenger, and going to inappropriate websites

The concerns of students getting distracted by the laptops arise between teachers. the issue also expands into being hard to control students to use the laptops appropriately. Teachers are very limited when talking about monitoring on the user of the laptop. As they are very busy teaching the class, and if the teacher is monitoring the student, the student may feel their privacy being invaded.