PLN 6

Today I came across a different type of blog by Will Richardson called Dispatches From the Front Lines #324. Instead of several long paragraphs about the subject it was a conversation between Richardson and a principal of a school that has grades K-12. They talk about how the school doesn't have alot of technoloy for its school because of the cost of laptops and they small amout of money they are given to spend of laptops.

What matters:
The government is the supplier of the money for schools. But even though the government gives most school a large amount of money, it is still never enough to by to all the necessities for a proper education in todays world of technology. The princepal tells Richardson in thier conversation that they only recieve $100,000 from our local council for technology. That may seem like a large amount but that amount of money is only enough to buy 50 laptops. The cheapest for a good laptop is $2,000. The need for technology is schools is increasing and schools can't go on much longer without them. Most jobs involve even a little bit of technology at the very least and in order to get a good education you must have a little bit of knowledge of the subject. The government needs to figure out some way to provide schools with enough money to get them good laptops.

What matters to me:
Arapahoe high school is very fortunate to even have enough money to buy some laptops for my english class. But they don't have enough for every English class so only a couple lucky students get to use the laptops. Maybe some day AHS will get enough money to let every class have laptops. But the government doesn't realize how important and useful these laptops are. They can improve education so much. I don't know how much money the school gets for technology and other things and I don't know how much other schools get either so I'm not sure how the littleton school district distributes money for essential things. But I know that AHS gets more than most schools do.