Either Or Both

[Peter Lydon]

Just been pondering this, responses welcome.

In school, would you always use your personal laptop in preference to a school computer?

Peter

[Clare Wallace]

Hi Peter

Would use personal laptop if there was a docking station so that I wouldn't be faffing around w cables etc! Also would need a compatible docking station in lots of rooms (subjects: business and ict = no base room). Asked this same question on cesi 3 years ago! In the end felt the cost of no of teachers x cost of laptop + docking stations in all rooms was too much in comparison to cost of desktops (which are also easier to maintain). There is however a valid counter argument that laptops help to make teachers more IT savvy. 

Hth and interested in other replies!

Clare
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[Jane Keenan]

Hi Peter,

Good question - I'm interested to see what others say.
This is just my own personal experience for my current situation -
every school and teacher (I suspect) will be different.

Without question: my own laptop.

The school I am in has a laptop in most classrooms - they are student
rooms, teachers do not have their own rooms. The laptops are only
sometimes used and hence:

- When you want to use them, usually there are windows updates that
need to be applied before/after start up/shut down. (I don't have time
for that in a bare 40 min class.)

- They may not be powered up if they weren't plugged in and left on.
(I don't have time for that in a bare 40 min class.) With my own
laptop on sleep, I can have files up open and ready for use before
class.

- I use particular software and particular versions of software (e.g.
geogebra). I do not have time to keep all laptops in all classrooms
updated with software (and versions) that I may or may not need on a
daily basis.

- I develop different resources daily on my own laptop. If I wanted on
the spur of the moment prompted by a class discussion or question to
show a class something really useful, I would have to keep and carry
an external hard drive with everything I have ever created on it. (But
then back to my first three points.)

- Sometimes the internet connections work, sometimes they don't. I can
plan for this with backup alternatives on my laptop - not 6 different
laptops in 6 different rooms.

- Finally, I mind my own laptop. I back-up regularly, have a good
anti-virus software on it. I am savy enough and careful enough not to
download suspect files etc (I hope!). I don't think someone who is not
as comfortable with computers would be as careful.
So I know my laptop will be working in the morning. This doesn't
always happen with the school laptops.

I think if I had my own room in a school and I had a dedicated laptop
in the room that mostly only I used, maybe I would use the school
laptops more.

Just my tuppence!

Jane.

[Mark Boggins]

Hi Peter,

From a primary schoolteacher's point of view, being in the same room all day, the laptop isn't really a preferance, I certainly use the laptop at home every eve. It's less hassle to plug in an external drive from laptop at home to desktop in class. It also means I can download youtube videos or any other NCTE blocked content on my home network. I did quite a bit of subbing in 2011 and from personal experience the vga plugs in and out every day add quite a bit of wear and tear, so if the laptop was going home each day be prepared for a much shorter lifespan. While subbing, a primary teacher will be much better equipped with their own laptop and their own files ready for the day ahead. I've arrived in many classes with an abundance of powerpoints or videos to accompany a lesson to find the desktop lacking programs needed. Installing programs on another teacher's computer and the time wasted is not an option..

I'm lucky enough to have a quite new desktop in the class too so anything I bring in on the external drive is transferred via usb3 and there's no issues with waiting.
There's my tuppence
Mark

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[Mags Amond]

It is a long time since I have had any real preference - I tend to you whatever is there when I turn around - own stuff, school stuff, don't mind.

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[Simon Lewis]

Hi Peter

I use my own. I'm kinda dreading if the teaching union direct us not to use our own devices, etc. for work!

Simon

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[John Heffernan]

My chrome book requires an update one or two times a year - boots in 3 seconds- takes me longer to type my password in 

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[Cormac Cahill]

I use my own iPads and computer every day. I hope we're not told to leave them at home as I have everything I need running and set up my way. Had a desktop at school but in essence it ran off a memory stick I brought in each day with what I had prepared the night before. Updating etc just meant staying on each day when I could have been working at home. 

Cormac

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[Paula Phelan]

I hope that it doesn't come to a directive telling us not use our own stuff, what a sad day that would be for the profession, surely our unions can do better for us! :-) I use my own as I don't have my own classroom and find it easier to have everything with me! 

Paula 

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[Hassan Dabbagh]

I think we should really be thinking about managing the server/client/ cloud relationship. We should be able to work at home on our Private Laptop/PC and save the information in the cloud ready for use the next day, Accessing this information via an ipad or tablet device, content is created in my private device and delivered on School/Classroom device. This is all based on you having a Solid internet connection and this is something that is coming although no here yet.

There is an old fashioned way of logging onto your school/classroom pc and thats by using remote desktop, that way you are not introducing an outside device to a clean domain, this is all based on the school having a server/client relationship setup. 

Personally I panic a little bit when I see outside computers coming in and sitting on the school domain & another thing that makes me panic a little bit is the rep story, you've heard that one right? no?? 

a rep (who will remain nameless) went into a school to Demo the new iPad and how great it was and how it was going to improve the teachers lives, the Rep was using a private iPad, when I opened up the Kindle ...........I mean when the rep opened the Kindle app he had forgotten that he had linked the account to his girlfriends kindle account (Legal gray area) and there on the big screen was the kindle book list which included the 50 shades..1,2 & 3. All I'm saying is, be careful about bringing private machines into a school environment.