500 EUR self, teachers seeking clarification of hardware … – Horizon School

While the world awaits the school known for clarification from the Ministry that, hopefully, give more details on the costs covered by the bonus for self-training, many teachers ask themselves.

We receive daily emails from teachers seeking clarification on what they can and can not buy with the bonus of € 500.

Many doubts, especially as regards the scope of the hardware and software, so that one of the hottest debates in our forum regards their hardware.

In particular Motl ask if a smartphone may fall in the expenditure of 500 Euros for self-training.

If Hardware refers to the term with meaning related to the scope dell’igegneria electronics and information indicating the physical part of a computer (monitor, hard drive, power supply to the mouse …) and, in any case, more generally, an electronic device, would seem to fall, in addition to computers, tablets and even smartphones. But, in our opinion, it is best to wait for clarification of the Ministry before you go to the expense.

Another issue, very delicate, on the software side. The questions that we receive concern the type of software purchased. For example if you can buy an anti-virus, although not closely related all’aggionamento teachers. Some may fall a package with word processor and spreadsheet, or maybe a software to create hypertext.

Even here, however, there are limits that the law did not take into account. For example, a user asks us if we can buy access to the platform prezi.com for creating animated presentations to improve education in the classroom. This is not a real purchase of software, but access to a platform of a company that is headquartered in the United States.

The same applies, for example, for the platform Edmodo now operating internationally and that is used for a teaching-oriented social model.

Of course, the Ministry would do well to put these case studies in the explanatory memorandum. The world is globalizing and access to the software now following different paths that do not purchase boxed with cd and password.

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