3 Drawbacks of using ICT in schools
1) Cost
More and more resources are being put into ICT in schools - the cost of laptops, wireless broadband, projectors for example contribute a large percentage of the school's budget.
A $850 million Standard ICT Operating Environment (SOE) system has begun in 2012, enabling students to tap onto wireless networks in their schools with speeds up to 1Gbps to do their school online assessments or research for their projects - particularly in the secondary and tertiary levels of education.
More and more resources are being put into ICT in schools - the cost of laptops, wireless broadband, projectors for example contribute a large percentage of the school's budget.
A $850 million Standard ICT Operating Environment (SOE) system has begun in 2012, enabling students to tap onto wireless networks in their schools with speeds up to 1Gbps to do their school online assessments or research for their projects - particularly in the secondary and tertiary levels of education.
2) Misuse of ICT
Instead of using their laptops or tablets for their studies and online tests, more often than not students stray away and visit social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. Then, listening to the teachers in lessons are no longer their main priority - they would be too focused on playing games or visiting social networking sites. This would result in lower academic grades. However, should the student be focused to their studies, such activities may not play out and that would mean ICT is an advantage to them. |
3) School Bags + Laptops?
Crescent Girls' School, one of the 5 FutureSchools in Singapore, requires each student to own a laptop. Coupled with heavy textbooks, notes and homework, the laptop is quite a burden to the students' back.
An average laptop weighs about 2.0kg. Although homework is online, there are often times that the homework is to be printed out and handed in.
Schools are becoming more dependent on e-learning (learning on the internet) but textbooks are mostly print publications. Hence, the weight of this laptop, textbooks, and homework may bear health consequences in the near future.
Crescent Girls' School, one of the 5 FutureSchools in Singapore, requires each student to own a laptop. Coupled with heavy textbooks, notes and homework, the laptop is quite a burden to the students' back.
An average laptop weighs about 2.0kg. Although homework is online, there are often times that the homework is to be printed out and handed in.
Schools are becoming more dependent on e-learning (learning on the internet) but textbooks are mostly print publications. Hence, the weight of this laptop, textbooks, and homework may bear health consequences in the near future.