Friday, October 10, 2008

Week 8 - Why Wireless ? (Thoughts on Nov. 2007 blog)

"Why Wireless ? ... Because their century demands it". I thought this summed it up very well. Since the students will need to be technically literate in the coming years. I must agree that having a wireless network available is a big help to accessing information.

Students can continue learning outside of the classroom and not just between 7:30 am and 2:30 pm. The wireless network can make class blogs and teacher instructions available 24/7 and make learning a lot easier for the students with personal web access devices.

The only downside to this is giving students access to a wireless network could encourage frivolous web browsing. Web sites such as myspace or ones that allow video games could easily distract from a students regular learning needs. If the wireless network has security in place, it could block such websites so that easy web access doesn't become a hindrance to learning.

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