what manners should one follow in the computer room
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We love education technology here on Edudemic. From the looks of it, you like it too. So let’s stop for a second and forget the idea of a 1:1 classroom or a BYOD setup. Let’s take a walk down the hall together and stop in at the school computer lab. It’s filled with brand new barely working computers. They are there for a reason: to help students access the web and learn together. Computer labs can be a hotbed of activity or they can be something that resembles a graveyard. It’s up to your school to determine which you want.
Every school is different so these rules are not perfect for everyone. However, at least some of them are quite useful. For example, ‘print only when necessary’ is a great tip that is eco-friendly and saves your school a bit of coin on printing costs.
On the other hand, ‘work quietly’ may not suit every school’s computer lab. As I mentioned above, these are labs, not libraries. It can be okay to do group work or to have some collaborative project-based learning in the lab. Again (can’t stress this enough), it’s up to every individual school to determine the proper rules for a classroom / school computer lab.
The following list of 10 rules are succinct and meant to be printed out and posted on your lab’s walls. They may not have much description to go along with each rule, but it’s a great starting point