Education - Advantages of Wireless.

Advantages of Wireless

Wireless networking works well in all types of school. It offers educational benefits as well as administrative, often at lower costs compared to other networking solutions.

Benefits of Wireless for Learning

Gives access to more children, subjects, areas of the school and for a wider range of purposes.

Benefits of Wireless to teachers:

• Can work more efficiently
• Support their pupils’ learning through their own use of ICT
• Use ICT to extract greater value from their teaching
• Work wherever and whenever suits them best, around the school

The flexibility of wireless networks and portable computers means that lessons using ICT, can take place in ordinary classrooms. Children’s learning needs are supported and teachers’ can innovate in how learning takes place.

For smaller schools, wireless networking can offer a cheaper, more rapidly installed way of giving increased access to ICT school-wide.

For larger schools, wireless extensions to existing wired networks can bring campus-wide coverage with the flexibility to provide temporary additional coverage in unusual areas.

In special schools, wireless networking makes ICT available anywhere. Children can be given better access to their curriculum entitlement by taking facilities to them, where they are needed. This can dramatically improve special needs children’s access to computing facilities and exploit the power of ICT to provide facilities dedicated to individuals’ requirements.

In schools short of space, mobile computers take up less space on desks when in use and can be packed away into storage trolleys with chargers built in.

In all schools, wireless networking can include portable computers being used wherever they are needed, even outdoors, as well as fixed computers in remote areas of the school.

Trolleys equipped with computers and wireless networking can be a mobile, shared resource that gives access to a school network and the internet. As flexible resource they give better value for money than desktop computers. Schools using wireless networks report that when combined with portable computers allows easy access to classes across the school, both the amount and the quality of ICT use surge ahead dramatically.

Beyond the classroom

Many schools report that they exploit the freedom brought by mobile computers on wireless networks by extending opportunities outside their classrooms. This includes:

• Children working individually in other places: the library; common rooms; corridors; nooks and crannies. This might be in lesson times or for lunchtime homework sessions, for example;
• Using temporary classrooms more effectively by including them on the network and taking laptops to them;
• Using laptops where computers were not previously available – in sports halls and drama rooms;
• Using mobile computers around the school grounds – for environmental science work, or on the games field.

Beyond the school, wireless networks can support pupils and the wider community in networking with each other and with access to the internet.

Reducing the ongoing costs of traditional wireless networking Aruba Wireless by i-RAS solutions are:

• More secure that wired networks
• As reliable
• And even as fast as wired networks

What I-RAS Wireless can Deliver, Guaranteed

Due to the unique features, access policies for different groups of users can restrict access to only the required or even allowed resources all protected by the highest security built in firewall. All wireless users are firewalled from each other and any resources they are not allow access too.

Some schools segregate their network by VLANS others have two completely separate networks. Reduced costs of installation and space saving from portable computers on wireless networks can offer particular advantages to primary schools, especially as finding space becomes increasingly difficult in the face of rising computer to pupil ratios.

Portable projectors with wireless connection to the network to allow streaming of video.

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