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KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸
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« on: August 11, 2021, 12:51:07 AM »

Before we go any further with this bill, are we sure that every school in Atlasia needs tablets and laptops and everything? Classroom technology can do some amazing things, don't get me wrong, but I'm not 110% convinced that spending the extra money on technological infrastructure will actually help raise test scores, increase student attention and participation, get more homework turned in, etc.? We could be throwing 70 billion taxpayer dollars on something that students have gone fine without for centuries.
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KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2021, 08:40:22 PM »

I'd like to apologize for not responding to the question about overlap and to answer the question by Senator Koopa, lets say there is a pandemic like this one, should poorer student be disadvantaged by not having a laptop or tablet and not being able to access the learning that a student can get by having a computer. For instance, my textbooks can be accessed online which means that you can learn almost anywhere. Also, students can learn from websites like Khan Academy if you give every student a laptop.

Schools can have after school tutoring and it is more easier for someone who poorer to do it online than to do it at school because their parents would have to travel to school to pick them up if they had to stay at school. Also from personal experience, I have a class on robotics and coding in school, and laptops are nearly essential, especially in coding.

The idea of students without laptops being able to access remote learning should a COVID-like situation occur is a good idea, provided the poorer students also are provided WiFi hotspots by their school district so that they can actually access the content. The after-school online stuff isn't bad either. However, while online tools can help with teaching certain concepts to students, I'm still not 110% convinced that giving every single student their own personal iPad or Chromebook is necessary in a non-emergency scenario. I can vote for this bill if it's just for poorer students being able to access after-school content or remote learning, but not necessarily for the other stuff.
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KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2021, 12:40:42 AM »

aye
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