Wednesday, March 16, 2011

COMPUTER CRUNCH

Brain-Storming “Rules”:

  • Encourage wild seeming unrealistic ideas
  • Don’t judge others’ ideas
  • Build on ideas put forward by others
  • Every group member and every idea has equal worth
  • Get as many ideas as possible

Issue:

Engineering class of 27 students have only 25 computers. How can all 27 students have equal access to computers?

Ideas:

  • Ask class to donate $$$ for additional computers
  • Ask for school funding / scholarships
  • Find kids with parents that work with computer companies willing to donate computers
  • Make computer assignments take half a class periods time
  • See if other computer classes (math, biology, etc) have extra computers
  • Duct-tape 2 freshman to the High School Sr Rock... (just kidding)
  • All engineering students pool together to raise money to buy 2 more computers
  • Shift 2 students to a smaller sized (23 or less) Intro to Engineering class
  • Allow students to use their own personal computers (need to download software onto their computers)

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the input Phil, you have some good solutions in mind.

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  2. Good initiative sharing your perspective. I'm awarding you some extra credit on Term 5 for this.

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