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July 13, 2005
Arizona High School Goes All-Wireless, All-Laptop
The 350 student Vail High School in Arizona will join an elite group of public schools in the USA as it becomes an all-electronic school in the fall. The students at the school will not have traditional textbooks. Instead, they will use electronic and online articles as part of more traditional teacher lesson plans.
Calvin Baker, superintendent of Vail Unified School District, said the move to electronic materials gets teachers away from the habit of simply marching through a textbook each year.
He noted that the AIMS test now makes the state standards the curriculum, not textbooks. Arizona students will soon need to pass Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards to graduate from high school (MyWayNews).
Other schools have broken ground with giving all students laptops, but this is the first school I'm aware of that is dropping textbooks entirely. This will be an interesting test case to watch.
Posted by ExploreLearning at 12:59 PM in Edu/Tech | Permalink
Comments
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Posted by: Wahid | Jul 30, 2005 11:04:11 AM
I don't understand. I thought that only Empire High school was going with the whole Laptop idea. I didn't know all of Vail schools were going with the idea.
Posted by: Ashlea | Oct 12, 2005 5:34:09 PM
I go to Empire High School. I love it, and the fact that we are able to incorporate online courses, text books, and the techniques of teachers, such as using the Discovery or History Channels, makes this an even better experience. Also, I think it's great to see more schools becoming more interested in using laptops for their schools. The transition may be difficult, but in this technologically advanced world of ours, it pays to be able to use a computer and have the basic skills that could get you a desk job at the age of 16!
Posted by: Jasmine | Mar 3, 2007 2:01:53 AM
