3) Tablet fails to connect to internet, resulting in lack of available materials.
4) Tablet unaccountably freezes.
5) Child, delighting in the touch screen, keeps touching it. And touching it. And touching it, so that the amount of time spent on whatever it is you're meant to be doing is limited.
And so on. What is most frightening about this announcement is that the tablet will “use the language of the internet” – smiley faces and sad faces, thus removing all nuance from a response. It will know if a child isn’t paying attention, warning users to keep their eyes on the teacher (how scary is that?) More worrying is that children will be able to use it to play games – such as one in which “Tom Sawyer battles the Bronte sisters.”
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The fact of the matter is that a room full of pupils staring at tablets is not going to be able to concentrate as well as if they simply had books. When I’ve done lessons with classrooms and laptops, a good part of the time was spent waiting to log on or charging up the laptops etc. And that’s not even to mention the classic excuse – “I’ve lost my tablet” – carries a lot more problems with it when a school’s spent a couple of hundred pounds on it then on a simple textbook.
This seems to me like the electronic whiteboard (which, in my experience, break or freeze at every available moment.) Sure, they look snazzy when parents come round the school. But they don’t make the thing that’s meant to be happening any better: and that’s teaching. Technology is smoke and mirrors: and here, quite dangerous smoke and mirrors. Let’s not succumb to its temptations.
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