A great scheme to equip children in years 9 to 12 Australian schools with educational notebook computers is going sour. Just two years after the Aus Dollar 1 billion scheme provided school children across the nation  with new Lenova notebooks, these teaching resources are now too slow to run the software.

The scheme introduced by the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had the best intentions. Give every child an educational  boost by allowing  them to progress with their learning in the classroom and at home. But computer design is perhaps the most rapidly evolving technology  imaginable. Two years is a long time for anything but the best computer to survive with its operating platform intact. Regretfully the choice of a low powered notebook has been overwhelmed  by the demands of the latest educational software the kids need to use in school. The notebooks now run desperately slow causing frustration by school children parents and teachers alike.

It was a great idea that lacked the forethought of the demands the educational software would place on on the notebooks. Let’s hope the computers that were issued in the UK’s Home Access scheme fare better. read more…Kevin Rudd’s computer giveaway