Commentary: Laptops for every student – a lot could go wrong

at the Committee of Supply debate in March this year that Singapore planned to launch a device ownership scheme to ensure that all Secondary 1 pupils will be issued personal laptops by 2028.

Inadequacy of home Internet access was yet another issue. The Ministry of Education responded by loaning out 12,500 laptops or tablets and 1,200 Internet enabling devices including dongles by mid-April. In a rapidly technologising world therefore, digital literacy is fast becoming a basic survival skill. By providing every secondary school student with a laptop or tablet, we will indeed help to level the playing field for acquiring digital literacy.

Once we have armed all students with personal devices therefore, how can we ensure that we maximise benefits and minimise harms? Students can take part in online polls, complete pop quizzes to receive instant feedback or enter virtual environments that bring textbook illustrations to life. Children may be spending increasingly more time on devices during the circuit breaker as home-based learning gives them the flexibility of time to do so.

We cannot assume that all students will be equally adept at using and maintaining their devices, or enjoy parental support in this regard.Personally-owned laptops will be toted to and from home where after-school use by students will present its own challenges.

Pls give them linux based laptops. Winblows sucks.

it better to give them text books, reference book to read and note book to write. Its high possibility that children will not use for a good purpose and start watching porn contents at very eary stages. Moreover it will impact their eye sight.

What diff does it make with phones in their hands

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