Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:03:45 -0500
From: Pierre Johnson <[email protected]>

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A NON EDITED MACHINE TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL IN SPANISH

I know that the Technological Institute of Study Superiors of Monterrey encourages the purchase of portable computers for their students, and Escirbes in a article that The institution has always given emphasis to the use of the computer for their students, this way the ITESM promotes that each student has her personal computer to make tasks, to communicate by mail electronic or to go to the Internet. The students in its majority is of a half high economic level, this allows them to acquire the one I equip and to pay the inscriptions."

I wanted to ask the following questions to guide your reflection on the social impact of this educational method:

What to think of the politics of the ITESM about the lap top?
Does it favor the student's autonomy?
Does it obey economic or pedagogic reasons?
Does it allow a reflection on the social use of the TIC?
Does it allow a social impact of the TIC? A friend that studied the ITESM told me that in that then had available desk computers for the use of the students. Already no. What to think of this evolution?
Trying to answer to these questions, you could produce information interesting for MISTICA.

Greetings,

Pierre

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