Most Form One students will be happy this September, when they each will be receiving their new laptop computers. I too am excited for them. The Ministry of Education is still in the process of formulating policy guidelines for using these computers. They are yet to iron out whether the laptops would be taken home or left at school. They have to ask and answer many questions to shape this policy. Such as; would the laptops be safer in the homes or at the schools? Would they be used by the form ones for every subject or only during Information Technology (IT)? Would the SEA students in 2011 be given laptops as well? Would all teachers be trained in the use of it in the various disciplines? Would each school be provided with IT teachers? At my school in particular, only students in form three receive IT instruction and students in forms four and five who have selected IT for CSEC since we have one lab and one teacher.
Currently, there are more questions than answers and everyone is eagerly looking forward to see how these questions will be answered in September.
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