But what I'd really like is some input from teachers...
Here's what one teacher at Woodley Hills Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia where every kid in her class got a laptop has to say:
"For Jane Duryea, a sixth-grade science teacher at Mantua, the laptops have already proven their worth.
'I love them,' said Duryea. 'It has been simple to bring the computers into the curriculum. It has really helped the students with graphing and drawing. I have also seen that many of the students are writing more and learning to edit their work much more thoroughly since we started using the laptops."
Maine completed its first year with laptops in school in June. Conclusion:
EDITORIAL: Laptop program needs evidence to show it works
Maine's experiment with laptop computers is drawing to the end of its first year, and anecdotally, it was a great success in many of the state's public middle schools. Anecdotes, unfortunately, won't pay the bill. [June 11, 2003]
For more news about Maine's program, go to:
http://news.mainetoday.com/indepth/laptops/#news
A laptop on every school desk doesn't mean "bookless", of course. Are any of these schools really "bookless"?
If a kid reads a book on a screen, is that the same experience as reading the same book off a shelf? Does the tactile experience of a book add anything?
