Effects obtained by installing a wireless LAN access point on a school bus

Information EducationHas come to be performed actively in Japan, but in Japanese schools we will touch the PC for a limited time only at the "computer classroom", so we will be able to learn how to use it seamlessly between the net and the real world For teachers and learners it is still feeling like fumble.

At a high school in the United States, a wireless LAN access point was introduced to the school bus, and students were able to always connect to the Internet until leaving home, but it was quite interesting to get results It seems. It may be a hint to solve the current problem of information education in Japan.

Details are below.
Wi-Fi Turns Arizona Bus Ride Into a Rolling Study Hall - NYTimes.com

In 2005,In Arizona State · Empire High School, laptop computers were distributed to all students instead of textbooks, We installed more than 100 wireless LAN access points in the school to prepare the connection environment.

However, it was obviously impossible to connect the school bus' s school hours, which took more than an hour each day, and that time was wasted. In the United States, one school district is generally vast and it is not unusual to take more than an hour to go to school by using a school bus.

At one time, a local official's person commuting by car When I thought that "If someone drives instead, I can work on my laptop while doing it", I introduced a wireless LAN router to the school bus , The students started tasks of doing school tasks and updating Facebook, and the inside of the noisy cars became quiet as compared to then.

Actual school bus.


Students who knock the keyboard silently. Even though I was not specifically forced, there were a lot of students doing homework at school.


Some students have noticed that the bus is unexpectedly quiet and have found it a suitable place to think.


Some students are playing games, but they do not regulate in particular. There seems to be many problems such as how to regulate access to harmful information, how to raise awareness of personal information protection, but in this way, to prepare an environment where students can demonstrate creativity at any time 24 hours a day But I think that it is likely to produce big changes in the future.