1:1 Laptop Schools

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My former school district, BCLUW, was fortunate enough to become one of the few 1:1 laptop schools in Iowa. I was unfortunate enough to miss this program by about two years. I have however heard great things about it and can only wish that I could have participated in this while I was a student at BCLUW. Being able to do research, take notes, save documents, and even do homework on a laptop, while sitting in a high school classroom, is awesome. This frees the teachers up to be able to explore different and more useful teaching techniques and it also allows them to support inquiry based learning from right in their own classroom as they can promote student exploration of information through the computers. It is also very nice that the students can now reach important article and text databases from the comfort of their classroom desk without moving an inch from the classroom. This could be extremely useful when trying to read up more on a topic discussed in class or for further learning. Visit the BCLUW website to learn more about the school at http://www.bcluw-ia.schoolloop.com/.