{"id":44642,"date":"2014-08-27T08:41:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T14:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/how-not-to-get-computing-devices-out-to-students.html"},"modified":"2014-08-27T08:41:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T14:41:49","slug":"how-not-to-get-computing-devices-out-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/how-not-to-get-computing-devices-out-to-students.html","title":{"rendered":"How not to get computing devices out to students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">LAUSD&#39;s iPad program was one of those &quot;sounds good on paper&quot; ideas that has been horribly botched from Day 1, starting with the idea of locking the tablets down to just being usable at school and only for academic stuff (<a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/fun-finds-a-way.html\">https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/fun-finds-a-way.html<\/a>) and rolling forward inevitably to &#8230; finding corruption in how the whole contract was worked out. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, while they rework the project to be better managed commericially, they will also rethink the technology and how it&#39;s implemented and <i>why.<\/i>\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/cldP64-orDE7aoYUa7ORTcwT1-_kACoaLOxr1BSZwrPLfSkk1jlgRYcILDTopcIx6mSp0ZC1R6RRkLM1i6IQoKsHLIZL80yuO7Q8JRDk1mLW0o5Z-E8Uw1UyRJlVoYEVrlxef4KqwV4xjM8W=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2014\/08\/los-angeles-school-district-halts-1b-plan-to-give-every-student-an-ipad'>Los Angeles school district halts $1B plan to give every student an iPad<\/a><br \/>\n                                                After possible malfeasance by district officials, the project is set to start over.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/E4AgNezbjrG' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUSD&#39;s iPad program was one of those &quot;sounds good on paper&quot; ideas that has been horribly botched from Day 1, starting with the idea of locking the tablets down to just being usable at school and only for academic stuff (https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/fun-finds-a-way.html) and rolling forward inevitably to &#8230; finding corruption in how the whole contract was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/how-not-to-get-computing-devices-out-to-students.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How not to get computing devices out to students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}