Chris Leckness

Now, this is the way I like to see school evolve. This teacher is using Dell Axims to automate some of the learning process!

Students in Ray Leal’s seventh-grade humanities class no longer have to hand him their assignments — they beam them to him.
This week, the Harby Junior High School students were among the first of 250 students to receive Dell AXIM handheld computers that link with each other on a schoolwide, wireless server. The devices are part of Alvin ISD’s Handheld Initiative, which aims to integrate advanced technology into the everyday curriculum.

Source: The Facts

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kulnet

That is pretty cool indeed. :approve:

patrickj

Very nice. Would also be interesting to see what controls they are placing 9trying to place) on devices / wireless ...

tancerman

Sounds cool! Must cost alot though....

Just wait till the kids find aximsite, and find out how to do way cool things on their axims lol.

GeneValgene

that is a great idea!

but 450/axim seems kind of steep! you would think they could get some kind of discount

stevenator65

I'm sure there's a school discount. MS has massive discounts for students.

silentknight

This is cool, but im not sure if I agree with this quote

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The devices are able to do everything a laptop computer can, said Melinda Louvier, Alvin ISD’s instructional technology specialist.

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cawinters

that might have made me study more in high school,....

spunker88

That would never come to my strict, poor school. But, it sounds cool...

We arent even allowed to have our own pdas/mp3 players/cell phones, etc with us in school. They have to stay off in ur locker.

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borderline

You have no idea how much this pisses me off. Here public schools are crying and moaning that they don't have enough money to simply teach our kids, yet here's one (I checked, it is public) that seems to have thousands of extra dollars to buy every student a PDA. This year it's only (only) 250 handhelds. Next year it's going to be 1000. Where is this money coming from? Probably from a federal grant the local congressman took out of YOUR pocket.

Somebody please show me a study that says computerized classrooms lead to increased learning, because otherwise I might think this school just wasted a whole lot of taxpayer money. And note that I said INCREASED LEARNING, not higher test scores. Because you can put anything on a test, and point to higher scores to show how well the teachers are doing.

Fact is, most of these are just going to turn into high-tech cheating machines. A lot of the others will probably be broken.

My two cents. Use them to buy your own PDA.

spunker88

Originally Posted by borderline

You have no idea how much this pisses me off. Here public schools are crying and moaning that they don't have enough money to simply teach our kids, yet here's one (I checked, it is public) that seems to have thousands of extra dollars to buy every student a PDA. This year it's only (only) 250 handhelds. Next year it's going to be 1000. Where is this money coming from? Probably from a federal grant the local congressman took out of YOUR pocket. Somebody please show me a study that says computerized classrooms lead to increased learning, because otherwise I might think this school just wasted a whole lot of taxpayer money. And note that I said INCREASED LEARNING, not higher test scores. Because you can put anything on a test, and point to higher scores to show how well the teachers are doing. Fact is, most of these are just going to turn into high-tech cheating machines. A lot of the others will probably be broken. My two cents. Use them to buy your own PDA.

I agree. I think axims would bring test scores down. Theyre too much fun. People will be fooling around, bluetooth iming each other in class, playing games, theyre is just too much fool around with these devices.

PCs help when typing homework, and the internet is a great tool. But this is overboard... Taxpayers pay for this...

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hstn

They could have some potential for helping to motivate students to explore through writing, jotting notes, organizing thoughts, reworking their prose--all the things we find useful in the Axims. A good teacher could help steer the kids away from just playing or using them for shallow internet research. Axims could be much more than a gimmick or a means of submitting papers, if carefully integrated into the curriculum.

mobilemaniac

Students are able to download information from each other by putting the devices in short range of one
another. That’s why many of them have the same picture of a monkey on their device’s desktop.



“I found this picture of the monkey, and then I beamed it to everyone in the class (just like my Uncle Frenchy told me to),” student Paige Croxton said.

I have a feeling Aximsite will be getting 300 new members soon.

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mtgeorge

I think this is a great idea! I wish I would have had the opportunity to get that much hands on technology experience in high school!

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