In my previous post, I mentioned my daughter’s desire for a laptop and how I’m currently just saying “no”.
Here is a thought provoking video created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University which illustrates the changing landscape in education.
It’s a very different world now. The older generation has to adapt if it wants to reach the younger generations more than it has in previous generations due to the way that technology in the past twenty to thirty years has changed the way we communicate information.
Oh, by the time my kids are in college, they’ll have laptops. It’s a tool no college student can do without in my opinion. But not right now, in middle school. Right now the allure is just to have an expensive, cool toy.
If you’re a parent of a teen, what are your laptop plans for your kids?
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