Rudd's Education Reform: Laptops to 9-12 Seconday Students (1 Viewer)

[hoschke118]

Why thank you

What's your source?





Source: http://news.theage.com.au/national/nsw-students-to-get-laptop-computers-20081130-6nmm.html

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/nsw-students-to-get-promised-laptops/2008/11/29/1227491892398.html

I'm still not convinced. your first 2 quotes don't set a date and your third pretty much says the same as the one i gave.
I don't know why we are arguing though. Neither of us seem to know too much, but you seem to believe what the papers say and i don't entirely trust them.

 

[x.christina]

Just wondering, since when has Year 9 become school "seniors"? I thought seniors where at least 10, 11 and 12..?

 

[Piratefishy]

They have built in blockers, like they have on the internet at schools. DAMN DET!!!!
So that definitely means no porn

they r blocking so much, u cant even install anything, not even Itunes or anything.

That's hogwash - it's called reinstalling the operating system

Yay for my dad being in IT WOOT!

Just wipe and reinstall the hard drive and woah sweet you have a new awesome lap top =]

 

[x.christina]

That's hogwash - it's called reinstalling the operating system

Yay for my dad being in IT WOOT!

Just wipe and reinstall the hard drive and woah sweet you have a new awesome lap top =]

However they will be those tiny white mini-laptops which are kinda ugly. I like my current one lol

Damn. I was hoping we'd have access to the REAL internet, not just shit DET Portal websites haha

 

[me121]

if the government does give free laptops to 9-12 students, i suspect there will be an increased number of muggings putting people at risk of street crime. also some kids will just accidental break them. then what does the government you do? fork out a whole lot more to replace the stolen ones, that cycle does not look very good.

A bad idea Mr. Rudd.

 

[British Bogan]

i really hope it doesnt get scrapped at the last secod cos it sounds really good to me. an di dont think there will be more muggings cos evry1 will have 1 so they wont be worth much. and they only havve shifty linux on the anyway.

 

[British Bogan]

NO!

YES!

 

[emytaylor164]

i really hope it doesnt get scrapped at the last secod cos it sounds really good to me. an di dont think there will be more muggings cos evry1 will have 1 so they wont be worth much. and they only havve shifty linux on the anyway.

And there is something wrong with linux???

 

[H4wk1n4t0r]

I'd like this to work well, except it's sounding like something that will fall way short of expectations, because anything technology-related is a bitch.

 

[chrishello08]

europe and the us implemented this type of reform and it failed. If it is proven that this"interactive learning environment"sucks then y is rudd going through with this. essentially the hsc exams are hand written and i personally believe wrote learning is far superior than using technology as a means of learning.

 

[jb_nc]

europe and the us implemented this type of reform and it failed. If it is proven that this"interactive learning environment"sucks then y is rudd going through with this. essentially the hsc exams are hand written and i personally believe wrote learning is far superior than using technology as a means of learning.

Rote learning is a learning technique which avoids understanding of a subject and instead focuses on memorization.

 

[greekgun]

Rote learning is a learning technique which avoids understanding of a subject and instead focuses on memorization.

true this - this is just like how he apologized to the aboriginals to cover up every1 asking him about other occurring issues.