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Few families buy a computer for every person in the household even if they can afford it. Family members are expected to take turns. Plan ahead. Schedule your time.
The more expensive the tool and the more rapid its typical obsolescence, the more we might gain by strategic deployment. This holds true for schools, for businesses, and for families. Strategic deployment is well planned movement of equipment to maximize and optimize use.
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- The just-in-time (JIT) inventory system is a management strategy that minimizes inventory and increases efficiency. Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing is also known as the Toyota Production System.
Just in time technology is a notion whose time has come. Schools and businesses alike see the mounting financial burden of maintaining computer networks when software and hardware companies keep introducing upgrades and new versions that make rapid and frequent replacement of equipment imperative.
Just in case technology is a wasteful, even profligate approach to resource management that threatens to distort school and business budgets, seducing managers into delaying roofing repairs in order to maintain current, trendy digital equipment and networks.
I. Technology as Goal
For a decade now, schools have been urged by a procession of visionaries to equip all classrooms and all children with high powered, globally connected digital tools.
These promoters have put the cart squarely before the horse and sadly ahead of program development.
The tools became program.
'We are doing the computer.'
'We are doing technology.'
'We are doing the Internet.'
'We are doing handhelds.'
And state governments often poured urgency on this digital bandwagon by creating technology grants, curriculums, tests and standards as if technology were a content area rather than a set of tools.
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School leaders found themselves pressured to network their schools before anyone had a very clear notion of how these tools would enhance student performance.
Not only did wiring classrooms become a priority - so did the purchase of many computers for each classroom as organizations such as the CEO Forum equated the level of curriculum integration with the number of computers per classroom.
Microsoft, Toshiba, Apple and other companies promoted 'Any time, any where learning' and laptop schools as a form of educational Nirvana, rushing to equip many independent schools and pilot schools with a laptop for each student. One-to-one computing is all the rage.
We could label this kind of technology procurement and deployment the 'just in case' technology model - a strategy that fills classrooms with equipment before clarifying purpose, value, or strategy. The discovery of purpose and learning strategies is evidently expected to occur some time following installation.
A decade after the creation of the first laptop schools, the evidence of value remains elusive and some program evaluations have proven quite disappointing. See data in Chapter 15 - 'After Laptop.'
This book argues for a dramatically different approach.
II. Technology in Its Place
No computer or digital tool before its time!
(or it is time)
Basic Beliefs
- 1. Avoid doing technology for the mere sake of technology.
2. Learn when to use classic tools and when to use new tools.
3. Know when to go unplugged.
4. Digital is not always best.
5. eCommerce is rarely a suitable focus for schooling.
6. People with little background or training in education rarely understand or appreciate the best strategies to improve classroom learning.
7. No computer or digital tool before its time!
In some quarters this just in time approach will be judged heresy, as the assumption for these folks is that more technology is always better.
But this book will argue that smart schools, students, and teachers learn to be discerning and strategic users of technologies. They share, take turns and move tools about to optimize returns on investments. When selecting a tool, they give full consideration to all technologies ranging from books and the human question to probes, digital cameras and PDAs. They also learn to unplug, turn off and tone down.
Smart schools are neither digitally obsessed nor technologically possessed. They have learned to say 'No!' to distractions, silly toys and untested innovations that might reduce their focus on education's bottom line - the improvement of student learning.
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