ICT for schools
is a rapidly changing technology as too is the inherent infrastructure, and for
kids and teachers to maximise the benefits, ICT for schools learning environments should be of the highest quality available.
This doesn't just mean the equipment has to be able to deal with the rapidly
changing IT environment, it is also encapsulates the entire learning suite in
which teacher and students operate in.
If you just
regress a mere five years or so what was once completely unheard of in most
schools and education establishments are now the norm. Interactive white boards
(as a for instance) were hideously expensive and seldom seen in mainstream
educational establishments. Nowadays they are considered the norm and regarded
as essential pieces of equipment which enable the teachers and students to gain
maximum benefit from the education process.
Increasingly
wireless networks and secure infrastructure are becoming essential elements of
every school as more and more students use laptops and hand held devices as
elements of the modern learning environment.
Now more than
ever IT suites and learning environments require professional install and maintenance,
in addition to being as future proofed as possible. Future proofing is what is
referred to be IT professionals as making an environment able to accept future
technology innovations, without the need for major capital investment on new
hardware and infrastructure elements.
Your school or
college may run several different courses which are heavily reliant on
different layouts; indeed, every establishment has one or other different
requirements. Even subjects as diverse as CAD (computer aided design) and
website design, computer language courses and science/chemistry subjects
require essentially different hardware and software plans.
Every school’s requirements are different and
yet in the same breath the infrastructure is pretty much the same; all will
require hardware such as the following:
- · Servers
- · Laptops
- · Computer work stations
- · Networked printers
- · Network switches and hubs
- · Cat 5e/6 structured cabling
- · Air conditioning for server rooms
- · Fiber optic cabling
- · Security applications and hardware

For more
information about future proofed ICT for
schools and other educational
establishments, log on to the website of Netcom ICT today, the address of which
is www.netcomict.co.uk.