I teach in a middle school with a really nice Mac lab. A couple kids started an unfortunate trend of popping the keys off the keyboards. Many are now totally unusable, but we need keyboards for the state tests. I'm looking for an inexpensive wired keyboard with keys that don't come off easily. I thought about silicone foldable keyboards, but a lot of reviewers say the keys don't type well. Any recommendations?
Keyboard for Middle School
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Lol. Accountability is a lost word. My kids have assigned seats, but the system breaks down. The lab is shared by 5 teachers (some watch more closely than others). Plus, kids from other classes are often sent to the lab to work on independent stuff, computers occasionally need serviced, kids sometimes misbehave and need temporarily moved to new spots, etc. All those things and more make a perfect seating arrangement impossible. It's harder than it sounds to track without a doubt who was on which computer at which time.
I guess there's probably a time stamp of who logged on to which computer and when, but only the district's central office would have access.
Anyways, we need a complete new set of the keyboards before we can worry about a new accountability system. Right now they're in too bad of shape to keep.
Geoff
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I used to work in IT at a K-12 school, and we had the same problem with kids taking keys off the Mac laptops, and re-arranging the keys in the iMac labs. With the laptops, Apple does replace the keyboards under warranty, which is why we were glad to have Apple Care on all the laptops. For the desktops, we got to the point where we never used the Apple keyboards, and instead got cheap $10 generic black keyboards. The keys do come off, but they are harder to take off and for some reason they don't have the same appeal to pop off as the Apple keyboards did.
Like you though, accountability was never a solution unfortunately. We had records of who used the computers when, and had sign out logs that the students were suppose to fill out when signing out laptops, but teachers never enforced it since the teachers were never enforced by the administration. Public schooling politics at it's best.
Like you though, accountability was never a solution unfortunately. We had records of who used the computers when, and had sign out logs that the students were suppose to fill out when signing out laptops, but teachers never enforced it since the teachers were never enforced by the administration. Public schooling politics at it's best.
Geoff
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Correct