Awareness Help students become aware of how their behavior may limit student access to computers during free periods. Here are some sugesstions. Identify situations that seem to encourage or discourage students from using them. Share your observations about how students use computers in the lab. Discuss how students can learn from each other and can create more equitable use of computers during free periods.
Action Make the computer lab more accessible to all students during free periods.
Here are some strategies. Use the ticket colors to regulate access to the lab. For example, students with yellow tickets could be admitted first on Mondays, and students with tickets of other colors could fill any leftover spaces. Students with blue tickets could be admitted first on Tuesdays, etc. You could issue only two colors of tickets and use them on alternate days, before and after achool, or for the first and second half of the lunch period.