A MacBooks-to-Success Story For Students And Educators

[girl gone mad]

2. Yet, the most exclusive private schools ban computers in the classroom..

and the school that top executives from Silicon Valley's biggest tech firms (including Apple) put their kids on long waiting lists to get into doesn't even want kids using computers at home.

Why is that? Maybe they already know something that the rest of the country is just now figuring out?

In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores

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The class, and the Kyrene School District as a whole, offer what some see as a utopian vision of education’s future. Classrooms are decked out with laptops, big interactive screens and software that drills students on every basic subject. Under a ballot initiative approved in 2005, the district has invested roughly $33 million in such technologies.

The digital push here aims to go far beyond gadgets to transform the very nature of the classroom, turning the teacher into a guide instead of a lecturer, wandering among students who learn at their own pace on Internet-connected devices.

Hope and enthusiasm are soaring here. But not test scores.

Since 2005, scores in reading and math have stagnated in Kyrene, even as statewide scores have risen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-schools-faces-questions-on-value.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all