Module 8 - Activities 6: One-to-one Computing

There are wide ranging considerations when it comes to one-to-one computing.  Schools and teachers must pay careful attention to issues such as classroom layout, classroom rules (especially those specific to computer usage), classroom management, lesson planning for computer integration (and back up plans), e-safety (paying special attention to online child safety, cyber-bullying, and sexual predators), teacher training, modelling desired behaviours.

At the end of the day, the most important element of school is that students are actually learning and growing.  One-to-one computing may help this along or hurt the process.  Each school needs to evaluate it's objectives to see if this is ideal for their environment, how best to go about it, and how much they should be included.  With or without this level of computer access, it is imperative that teachers plan interesting lessons and not fall into the trap of relying on the allure of the technology to "make" the lesson.  If properly balanced and carefully crafted into the curriculum, one-to-one computing could provide a wonderful teaching/learning environment.