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Over the last few weeks (since the last ICT strategy meeting) we have been looking at the devices on the market that might provide a different form factor, touch screen, instant on and a more convenient experience, one of the key pieces of data that we have discussed at Leading Learning meetings is the fact that the students seem to prefer to use the fixed machines at home. This has led us to consider devices that are not “very small underpowered” pcs but to consider it from the “other direction” ie slightly larger phones with some computing power that will allow students to get onto the internet almost instantly and it gives the possibility of downloading educational applications. (Of course school WIFI permitting) This has in turn led us to consider with great interest devices running the android operating system. As a result of this we purchased in a couple of Archos 5 units to test. The demo given at the last meeting suggested that there was a lot of possibilities here and at a very “low risk” price. The downside? well at the moment we are having trouble getting a reliable wireless network connection. The team are working on this but it is a fly in the ointment so to speak. Next weeks ICT strategy meeting might be interesting.

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