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Donna DesRochesgreat article on by Gary Stager on why laptop carts should not become mobile labs
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26 Jun 08
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The computer lab is an artificial environment in which kids who already know how to use computers are taught to do so again, but with less time, access and freedom than they are accustomed to outside of school. Computer labs are historical oddities separated from the curriculum by a firewall thicker than that, which keeps kids from researching breast cancer online.
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Experience from Harlem to Sydney has proven time and time again that kids are capable of being responsible for their own personal laptop computer.
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Skills introduced in school are practiced, refined and enhanced through the types of meaningful playful work kids do with their computers outside of school.
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Anecdotes abound about how a child brought their laptop home and used it to teach a parent to read or prepared a relative to seek a job in which computer skills were necessary. Parents have been amazed and delighted by the confidence and competence displayed by their laptop-toting children.
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