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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Charles Arthur

You decide: how determined are you to get wireless in your school?

10:10 case studies: Ashley School
Students look at the ‘ecoDriver’ software's screen to monitor electricity use at Ashley School, the joint winner of the Ashden Award for Sustainability 2009. Photograph: Ashley School

Your local school has been bringing up the rear when it comes to its computer installation. (Note: you don't need to have children, or children at the school, to take part in this one, so read on.)

Now it's planning to re-outfit its ageing systems by getting Wi-Fi systems that will mean that more computers can be added where they're needed - for the teachers, administrators, and in some of the classrooms. Plus it makes devices that don't have Ethernet jacks usable for getting the internet. (You may be able to think of some.)

But there's a fly in that ointment: a parent who says that Wi-Fi is dangerous, and especially risky for children, because it's radiation - radiation! - at the same frequency as microwaves. Microwaves!

There's a meeting coming up where "interested parties" will be able to make their case. Briefly: how will you convince them that they should do... what?

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