Computers in Schools

you're expecting teachers to help each child with a desktop application? Or even troubleshoot the desktop/laptop? have you ever even used any one of those cheap laptops?

Don't most schools already buy into Microsoft's closed environment?

Sadly many schools etc probs won't use this since most schools lack proper it-staff.

I wouldn't say that the teachers are necessarily bad or lazy, just as I wouldn't say devs are bad or lazy. However, I do agree with some of what the prior person was saying. If anyone is given the option to do something in an easier way, they're likely to do it. I think the teachers/schools would have selected the tablets/laptops because the education companies selling them marketed them as an improvement. In some ways they are. In other ways, I'm not so sure.Loo

1. It's not a complete replacement2. School are slow to adopt new techs

I think education as an influencer is overrated.At my kids' school, they really don't care what hardware you use, as long as Google Docs works on it. If you don't have your own computer, the school will rent you a ThinkPad for $70 per year (including the summer) but they are really awful machines. A lot of people buy their own hardware.

I have a feeling the first question will be "why couldn't they give us an xbox instead?"It will be interesting to see how these are used in schools though. When I was in school the ethos around IT and computers was very much "don't do anything we haven't asked you to do" which seems to be the opposite of how the pi is intended to be used.

Wish they would use this in schools instead of getting kids accustomed to MS office.

Since I volunteer in school science and computer lab, I have observed first hand how schools simply do not have the bandwidth to run any kind of IT. Even something as simple as installing a single new application on all of the lab computers is beyond the teachers of the classroom.That means most schools pretty much have to adopt some kind of cloud based solution that allows network administration of all of the computers used by the students.I don't know why Google's privacy poli

Are there schools that NAT student computers? That would be pretty shitty.