I manage the network for fairly large district in New York. One thing is for certain nothing works for everyone. Some teachers are really good at taking advantage of wireless carts, wether they are tablets or laptops. Others like the order of bringing the entire class to a formal computer lab. Some teachers are old fashioned and prefer to not have anything computer related used in the classroom. One on one programs seem really great until you check what the students actually do on them. Elmos are really cool if the student work has to be printed. Most teachers want it in a digital format so it is kind of a waste to give one to everyone. Laptop carts are fine but avoid the AP on the cart approach. you need to worry about people plugging in power and ethernet cables. Students by that point have already turned on the laptops and have received error messages when trying to login. Spend the money to put a proper controller based wireless solution in.
Again the bottom line is, find out how the teachers teach first. Then figure out how technology can benefit their method of teaching. Don't try to force your preferred method or they will not use it, and you will have wasted a lot of taxpayer funds.
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I manage the network for fairly large district in New York. One thing is for certain nothing works for everyone. Some teachers are really good at taking advantage of wireless carts, wether they are tablets or laptops. Others like the order of bringing the entire class to a formal computer lab. Some teachers are old fashioned and prefer to not have anything computer related used in the classroom. One on one programs seem really great until you check what the students actually do on them. Elmos are really cool if the student work has to be printed. Most teachers want it in a digital format so it is kind of a waste to give one to everyone. Laptop carts are fine but avoid the AP on the cart approach. you need to worry about people plugging in power and ethernet cables. Students by that point have already turned on the laptops and have received error messages when trying to login. Spend the money to put a proper controller based wireless solution in. Again the bottom line is, find out how the teachers teach first. Then figure out how technology can benefit their method of teaching. Don't try to force your preferred method or they will not use it, and you will have wasted a lot of taxpayer funds.