Ennis School Children were asked what it was like learning with computers and what they liked about the computers in their schools.
Here are some of their comments.

• When the teacher lets us pick for ourselves we can learn very well and the computer has lots of stuff to pick from.
• You can work without distraction on the computer.
• There's more to pick from than in a book.
• No more blotchy copies,
• The games make learning fun and you don't feel like you are doing work
• Because there's pictures and videos you can understand more easily
• You can pick things that are harder or easier and no one says you're stupid
• Computers have more information than teachers
• You can learn about the whole world from the Internet
• If you e-mail your friends its cheaper than the phone so your mum lets you
• You can go shopping on the internet
• You can make really good pictures from a computer
• You'd be real proud of your writing..it looks like a book
• Its easier to do problems when there's pictures of it.
• My mum lets me use the computer lots cause she says its good for my education.
• computers give you lots of information
• you don't get bored so easily
• we can learn about things we are interested in
• you can send letters to anywhere in the world
• gives you more knowledge than a book
• easy to use once you get the hang of it
• you can look up almost anything on the Internet
• you can play games on it
• lots of interesting pictures on the Internet - you can see places that you haven't been to
• typing is better than writing
• always something to do with a computer
• you can make posters, cards, banners etc.
• you can scan pictures
• You can look up your favourite football team on the Internet
• You can download games instead of buying them
• you can look up RTE and get the news
• you can listen to music and download it
• you can save games and come back to them later