At the presentation yesterday about mobile devices and Promethean boards, Brian Kennedy made a great point. Brian is part of the team at APS Online Learning. Part of their mission is to make technology easy for teachers and students to access and use. He mentioned making it free, by which I think he meant easy to get to. He then held up the little piece of paper with the La Cueva wireless code on it and said, "This does not say 'we want you to use these technology resources'."
Yes--we need security measures on wireless devices. However, the primary mission is not security of the wireless access points, or management of the computers. The primary mission is public education. In other words, helping students learn. How often do we send a message, perhaps out of a misplaced anxiety about control, that ends up telling students, "no--we don't actually want you to use these resources. We just want to make your daily existence a nonsensical gauntlet of obstacles."
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