BYOD in schools

[Mord Behar]

I don't know about students, but my mother is a teacher and she has to use
some legacy software that was written for Windows XP and fails on Win 7
about 70% of the time. It's proprietary software written by the ministry
for education and could not be easily ported to Linux.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Gabor Szabo <gabor at szabgab.com> wrote:

> In our school the management is trying to implement BYOD = Bring Your Own
> Device
>
> Some details here:
>
> http://schooly.co.il/rabin-modiin/page.asp?page_parent=105646
>
> First they talked about tablets but now it seems they talk about making us
> buy
> notebooks.
> Among many other issues, please note the technical requirements that gives
> us a choice of operating system:
> Windows 7 or Windows 8
>
> OTOH I could not find any information regarding the applications they want
> to run.
>
> Do you have any information about similar projects in other schools in
> Israel?
> What kind of devices have they used? What kind of applications do they
> install?
>
> Gabor
>
>
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