[Year 12 IPM] Computer Lab usage

[Graham]

G'day Brendyn

At Bright P-12,

> Current issues and questions revolve around the following:
> Should students be allowed into a lab without teacher supervision?

Only Year 12 students have unsupervised access to computers (in pods  
and also have 2 in VCE room)

> Should one of the labs be set up in such a way that it is  
> supervised all the time (by a tech or a teacher) and teachers are  
> free to send
> small groups of kids there at any time knowing that they will be  
> supervised.

Good idea, but hard to manage, hard to find the "time" for a teacher  
to do it ... we do have a computer room open at lunch time every  
day.  How does the supervisor know what is "valid" work for the  
students?  Teacher would need to have appropriate level of skills to  
support the students.

> Should we have more mini labs? (maybe several of these in the  
> library learning centre)

We have three pods of computers (5-6 computers), plus two computers  
in VCE room and four in library, plus two classrooms (for 300  
students).  Pods can be booked by teachers, provided that they have a  
class in the adjoining room (often necessitates a room change).






Graham Gales
Bright P-12 College
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