It was read in this previous post : it will cost $ 160 million for the purchase of laptops and interactive whiteboards. Taking into account the cost schedules (installation, training, etc..), Some speakers speak twice, almost three times, between 300 and 450 million. Here, a detail: in some classes, we found neither blinds nor curtains. For full sun, without them, the table become a TBI: an array stupidly inefficient. The purchase and installation of blinds, in which budget already?
over five years, the purchase of laptops and TBI, memory is more than the amount spent on the improvement of French as well as various measures against dropping out, homophobia and violence in school combined. With the addition of resources promised in the last collective bargaining, it is the largest program in education for years. And we understand that it was totally improvised, since even the boards were put the perfume of this initiative!
can also question the use of TBI in the classroom. If it is used to distribute video content or fixed, it would have been better to buy lights. A TBI is made to be interactive, not only allow the teacher to have a beautiful piece of technology but also engage the student who will use the occasion to better master certain learning. Do you think this teaching approach, because that is what it is, applies to all programs and discipline with all the teachers?
It is the installation of BITs as the Intensive English required: the principle is good, but its universality is an absurdity consumed.
One last point: who will pay for these BITs and these phones? The answer will rage or discourage you, depending. Read this passage from this text Francis Cardinal Press aptly titled "School bling-bling":
Especially since these gadgets have a cost. Enormous. The tables are broken down to $ 3000 short, to multiply in each of 40 000 classrooms in the province. Add to this a laptop for each of 80 000 teachers, and the bill is approaching $ 200 million ... besides the training all these people require for good reason.
A whopping ... which must be drawn, as was said by Jean Charest, out of the "financial framework established a year ago." And that's where the rub. Technology has its place in the class, but if she enters the price of a reallocation of resources, it is reasonable to ask whether it is a priority.
This denotes that this is not new money injected into education. Now think about your class, your school and ask yourself, what resources, what service my school board and the MELS will they cut to allow me to have a laptop and a BIT? 
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