RIP Campus Computer Labs?
March 29th, 2009 by ComputerBob
Back in Mr. Rurey’s high school “data processing” class, I learned how to wire the breadboards of my high school’s lone IBM punch card reader, to make it do magical things upon which my grade for that course was based, but of which I now have absolutely no memory.
But I do remember that any time you didn’t feel like listening to another one of Mr. Rurey’s data-processing lectures, you could instantly rewire his breadboard by asking him how his cat was doing.
In the decades since then, we’ve seen a shift from each school having one administrative computer, to each school having many administrative PCs, to each school having one or more computer labs for students to use, to nearly every student having their own computer at home, to nearly every student having their own portable computer with them at school.
As a result of that shift, some major schools are now thinking of dismantling their computer labs.
As always, Slashdot’s readers have a lot to say about that idea.
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