Careful planning vitalfor laptops in schools

THE EDITOR: While the public is well aware of the past situations with the introduction of laptops to pupils rather than schools in 2010, the public does not need to be reminded of the past. Instead, talk about the promising future with the reintroduction of the laptops.

It is indeed a wise decision for the devices to be the property of the schools since better usage would be implemented by the already well-trained administrators and teaching staff.

Many of our teachers are fully equipped to function in educational technology.

I saw what happened with the good intentions of giving each pupil a laptop and the outcomes were not beneficial to the young minds that surf the internet morning, noon and evening.

I am quite sure administrators and their teaching staff can design and implement a better way forward with the use of technology in schools. Building a nation is not about our political party or who did it the better way, it is about sitting down and thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of an idea and how the implemented decision would affect society.

The assessment factors within everything we do matters. If the disadvantages outweigh the good intended, then the plan needs to be reviewed and revised to a more applicable and logical solution.

Further, since this decision affects administrators and their teaching staff, they should be part of the revised process.

Human life and its development is not to be toyed with by who did it the better way. Again, the public is well aware of the disaster from a good idea gone wrong. If the idea can be revised into something that is more accommodating then we are on our way to a successful development.

Scientists review and revise their ideas all the time; that is what makes a perfect invention.

JUDY JAMES
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