Volume 16, Issue 24 — December 19, 2023

rAVe ED [Education] — Volume 16, Issue 24

December 19, 2023 | Volume: 16 | Issue: 24

Scott Tiner writes about a very interesting email thread in his latest column. In this email thread, the writers ask, “are dedicated computers going away in schools?” They could — but if they are coming to an end, does it really provide THAT much of a cost savings? Scott takes a look at a few other reasons people think they may not be around forever. Read more here.

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COLUMNS

+ Are Dedicated Computers Going Away? [Scott Tiner]

I am on a mail list that has recently had a thread about whether dedicated computers are still necessary. There are several arguments for and against this, although in this particular thread most of the arguments seemed to be for removing the dedicated computers. For some background, higher education has a long history of providing dedicated computers in their classrooms and conference rooms. Historically this was done at a time when faculty and staff were only assigned a laptop computer in special circumstances, mostly related to how much they traveled. Since it could not be assumed that anyone had a laptop, each space needed to have a computer to be used. Additionally, since it is an education institution, there was an even split of Mac and PC users, and many institutions either provided both computer types in the space, or in some cases would provide a dual boot Mac.