| Lack of tech support hobbled iPad initiative that helped bring down L.A. schools superintendent |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| A disastrous technology plan that helped force Los Angeles schools superintendent John Deasy’s resignation last week faltered in part because of a lack of technical support, news reports say. That investigation found that school staff working on the $1.3 billion project to send iPads to 30,490 students and 1,360 teachers at 47 campuses last year “needed to spend their time on technical troubleshooting rather than supporting technology integration into instruction in the first year of implementation,” the Los Angeles Daily News reported. The Madison Metropolitan School District is launching a $27 million initiative that by 2018-19 will provide each student in grades second through twelve with a wireless computing device. Students in kindergarten and first grade will have computing access at a 2 to 1 ratio of students to devices. |
| Source: The Cap Times (WI-USA) | Published: October 20th, 2014 |
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