Case Study

Primary issues: time, lack of systems, students’ lack of remembering their user names, booking, and demand for use of the lab

These problems would be very problematic because of course you need time to teach young children the basics of using a computer. Other teachers booking the lab and the projectors and other resources also takes always from your students. However it is not fair for you as one teacher to routinely use all the equipment while the other teachers wait.

One solution, however difficult to accomplish, would be to simply buy more equipment. But I actually feel indifferent to her entire situation. A good teacher would make the best of the situation whether he or she had technology or not. If you fret about having to book for the lab or other teachers taking your projector, you are doing a disservice to the students by worrying too much about that. Find another way. Teachers are not here just to teach, we are also there to improvise new ideas by using resourceful.

I also am baffled by the fact that the kids continue to forget their user names. In a school such as this I do not think that user names are necessary. Assign a seating chart and that solves it. The network administration will know information such as IP addresses for each computer. So get rid of the user names and passwords and make a seating chart.

I also see that the teacher got a laptop from the state from a grant. My mother works in a title-one school presently. She has to write grants all the time for simple art supplies. Maybe this teacher needs to write another grant for another projector. The students fight over the one computer because the tech guys don’t want to help fix the machines. They told her that they don’t want to help her at all. Seems to me that this teacher needs to tell them its their job to fix them, regardless of how old they are.