Kindergarteners with Laptops

Today was a rough day. We had very poor connections with the network and everyone is getting tired of using the netbooks that don’t have the Net. I had two little girls crying because it took 4 tries to login and they still had no working laptops at the end of it all.

The teachers are nearing their limit. They have had wireless and netbooks since March. Many of the teachers are experiencing the same thing. When teacher login with their students this is what they get…

An example of 20 students:

10 logged in right away

2 no network available

8 really slow to log in. Unable to get all their icons on the desktop but had them in the Start button. Many of these freze later on and were unable to access the internet or store files to the network.

If you know how important classroom management is, and how having half of your students off task can destroy a lesson, then you will understand the frustration of the teachers. It isn’t the kids fault. They are the very definition of patience and many are proactive about getting their PC up and running (yes Kindergarteners!). Most of the students are like this. I don’t think that it is because they are tech savvy. I think it is because of the school’s leadership focus. They follow the Steven Covey 7 Habits books.

So I would like to propose a toast to the brave staff and students in all our schools who clear the frustrating technology path so that their students can have more meaningful learning environments. It will happen but we need to learn from the mistakes so we can improve. Thank you!

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