| Merrington High
is a school in a poor neighbourhood, but was recently featured in a prominent educator magazine for its exciting
work with learners. After the article on the school was run, a company
approached the school with a donation of 14 computers for the school.
The principal, having been under pressure to purchase computers for the
school, saw this donation as a solution to the school's problems. Plans
began to be formulated at the school around all the uses to which the
ICTs would be put.
The offer was immediately accepted and a week later
the computers were sent to the school.
The one person at the school who knew something about
computers, began to unpack the computers in one of the school storerooms
that still had some space. This storeroom was also in the administration
block which was relatively secure. At present, there was, however, no
classroom secure enough in which to use the computers.
On opening the boxes, she found that the computers were very old models.
In some instances, cables were missing. In others, keyboards had not
been packed.
The educator went to the nearest computer store to
buy the necessary cables. On return to the school, when she tried out
a number of the computers she found that 4 did not work. The other ten
did not have the capabilities to support the functions and applications
that the school originally wanted to use the computers for.
How would you resolve this situation? What
lessons can we learn from it? Explain.
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