[LINK] School student computer program warnings come home to roost

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 3/02/2013 12:18 PM, Kerry Webb wrote:
> On 3/02/13 11:08 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> On 3/02/2013 10:06 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>> I imagine if I went back through the Link archives, each of these
>>> results were predicted.
>>>
>>> http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/parents-face-laptop-slug-as-funds-run-dry-20130202-2drqr.html
>> Jan, you beat me to it, although I was going to post the SMH link.
>>
>> It's another good example of my mantra: Every solution creates new
>> problems. And it's not as though these problems were hard to predict.
>>
> and they were drawn to the attention of the Minister(s) before the
> program was announced.

So, do we look forward to hearing about how they will solve these 
consequential problems?

The SMH report
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/computer-cash-in-lap-of-chaos-20130202-2dr65.html
has this quote:

'A spokeswoman for federal Education Minister Peter Garrett would not 
make any commitment on future funding, but said the five-year program 
was ''delivered on time and within budget", with 957,805 computers 
bought nationally at a cost of $2.4 billion.'

Reminds me of the old medical joke: The operation was a success. The 
patient died.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
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