I agree. I'm not that old (still in high school) and I use my laptop extensively for work. I have a nice moderately powered desktop for games and other things. I agree totally that mobile gaming isn't the best for students. Why am I seemingly immune? I don't have a CDROM drive on my laptop. I use an IBM X40, and I love it. It's perfect for working because it's small, light, and can run the programs I need it to. However, it's not for games. The temptation for games on kid's mobile computing solutions is great - I see it often. In my city, which is a more um... "affluent" area... the school system instituted a laptop programme at one of the middle schools. They used Apple iBooks - which have CDROM drives, which means games. Thus, I get to hear these very entertaining stories about kids that absolutely love their laptops but never actually have them b/c the laptop's on restriction because they're gaming. I waited five years to get a laptop - patience is the key: make their reasons align with yours, or you'll never win. It's like when the schools try to put filters on the internet. They honestly think they can contend with the combined sexual drive of about 1,500 adolescent males. Yes, the issues are real. Very real. But there's always a solution, and that's to put the kids to it. You'd be amazed at the responsibility you can find in your average high school student. It differs greatly from jr. high students. I would suggest introducing this mobile work platform around high-school, because jr. high kids just aren't mature enough as a group to handle it. Even in the high school enviorment you'll still find exceptions, as you will in any enviorment (except maybe an assisted living home). The trick is to have the problem constructively work to fix itself, in this case the kids. Even having the kids in jr. high make the rules they shall abide by would have a more desirable effect. I think it stems from a resentment from not having any say in what they're told to do, comparable to the colonies' ourtrage in the taxes Great Britian imposed on them before the US Revolution. The taxes themselves were fair, it was simply resentment that they taxes were there without even the smallest voice of consent from the colonies.
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I agree. I'm not that old (still in high school) and I use my laptop extensively for work. I have a nice moderately powered desktop for games and other things. I agree totally that mobile gaming isn't the best for students. Why am I seemingly immune? I don't have a CDROM drive on my laptop. I use an IBM X40, and I love it. It's perfect for working because it's small, light, and can run the programs I need it to. However, it's not for games. The temptation for games on kid's mobile computing solutions is great - I see it often. In my city, which is a more um... "affluent" area... the school system instituted a laptop programme at one of the middle schools. They used Apple iBooks - which have CDROM drives, which means games. Thus, I get to hear these very entertaining stories about kids that absolutely love their laptops but never actually have them b/c the laptop's on restriction because they're gaming. I waited five years to get a laptop - patience is the key: make their reasons align with yours, or you'll never win. It's like when the schools try to put filters on the internet. They honestly think they can contend with the combined sexual drive of about 1,500 adolescent males. Yes, the issues are real. Very real. But there's always a solution, and that's to put the kids to it. You'd be amazed at the responsibility you can find in your average high school student. It differs greatly from jr. high students. I would suggest introducing this mobile work platform around high-school, because jr. high kids just aren't mature enough as a group to handle it. Even in the high school enviorment you'll still find exceptions, as you will in any enviorment (except maybe an assisted living home). The trick is to have the problem constructively work to fix itself, in this case the kids. Even having the kids in jr. high make the rules they shall abide by would have a more desirable effect. I think it stems from a resentment from not having any say in what they're told to do, comparable to the colonies' ourtrage in the taxes Great Britian imposed on them before the US Revolution. The taxes themselves were fair, it was simply resentment that they taxes were there without even the smallest voice of consent from the colonies.