| Batavia expands in-school laptops to all sixth-graders |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Pretty soon, all sixth-grade students at Rotolo Middle School in Batavia will be using Google Chromebook laptop computers at their desks. The school board Tuesday approved the purchase of 389 of the devices, as the district expands its testing of 1:1 computing device use in classrooms. Chief information officer Anton Inglese reviewed initial results of the program, which started with fifth-graders at Alice Gustafson Elementary School using iPad tablet computers and one section of sixth-graders on Chromebooks last year. He cautioned the district is studying the effects of using technology in the classroom, not the devices themselves. But he did talk about differences between Chromebooks and iPads. The iPads have proved sturdier, he said. But the district finds it difficult to push out software applications and updates to large number of them, Inglese said. |
| Source: Daily Herald (IL-USA) | Published: September 27th, 2013 |
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