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There has been much discussion of the Vital Wave Consulting total cost of ownership model showing a $2,700 5 Year TCO This report models the cost for a secondary school to install a computer laboratory to support a course in computer literacy (often called ICT). This course consists of classroom lectures based on textbooks with hands-on computer access during scheduled laboratory periods ('students are not permitted in the computer lab without a teacher present').
From the article: "So the TCO per student under this model for 6 years is $490
or $81.67 per year and $0.0817 per hour."
Except for the entrenched base of msce admins and a few over the hill teachers
who had so much trouble with LookOut Express that they DO NOT ever want to
see anything new, this could be the future. Oh yeah, and the kick-backs from
non-free software manufacturers.
I live in a small, very small, town in New Mexico. High level of poverty.
The students starting in grade 7 receive a lappy. Turn it in for summer vacation
and get the same one back next fall. When these kids hit 12th grade they will
ask, "What is a computer lab?"
I've only lived in a medium town in New Mexico (Socorro). There's enough poverty in the medium towns too.
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Except for the entrenched base of msce admins and a few over the hill teachers who had so much trouble with LookOut Express that they DO NOT ever want to see anything new, this could be the future. Oh yeah, and the kick-backs from non-free software manufacturers.
I live in a small, very small, town in New Mexico. High level of poverty. The students starting in grade 7 receive a lappy. Turn it in for summer vacation and get the same one back next fall. When these kids hit 12th grade they will ask, "What is a computer lab?"