Laptops For Students Not a Good Idea?

We’ve seen many articles over the past year or so about the increasing technology that is being given to our students as tools. Unfortunately, maybe we will now see a step back from that approach as one school found out that the laptops were simply causing more trouble and the administration believes they weren’t making a difference.

Even more telling is that the laptops aren’t actually helping the students at all. "After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement -- none," said Liverpool school board president Mark Lawson. "The teachers were telling us when there’s a one-to-one relationship between the student and the laptop, the box gets in the way. It’s a distraction to the educational process."

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