All of us have had computer trouble from time to time. Well, my trusty laptop closes in on the four year mark which in computer time makes it an older model. The last few months have had increasingly long wait time, and lots of "chugging" trying to load. I did get a new battery for free thanks to my service contract, which helped some of the slowness. Yesterday, I spent hours on the phone with Microsoft and despite trying everything they could, I know have a Senior Analyst calling me back today to work on the problem again. To do so, I needed to find the original discs to perform a Restore. That just sounds bad and gives me a sad feeling that this ole' laptop and I will be parting ways sooner than I expected. I backed up my documents the best I could so we'll see how it goes. The challenge when your computer is your lifeline and deadlines don't stop, computer woes can stop us dead in our tracks. The upside is that I have learned how much I really could accomplish from my mobile device which I have to rely on more heavily in the last month. That gives cause to ask, how many of our students will abandon the computer and use only a mobile device. How will we support that, can we in education live only by mobile alone?
What do you think?
Brooke
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