I've been a participant in quite a few discussions surrounding this topic recently. Sometimes it refers to staff and their rights install and update software on a provided device or devices in their classrooms. Other times it surrounds devices given to students. Chris Betcher posted a pertinent blog piece this morning that articulates the core issue - trust!
If we lock down things for students and staff to such a level that they don't have any ownership - what message does that send? With the increasing need for updates to be installed - software, plug-ins etc - not allowing the using to have this privelege dictates that some administrator needs to touch the device or control it in some way....is this really what we want?
Read Chris' blog post here:
http://chrisbetcher.com/2012/05/in-none-we-trust/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+betchablog+%28Betchablog%29
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