Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall |
Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
In Vail, AZ, school officials mounted a mobile Internet router to bus No. 92’s sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. The students call it the Internet Bus, and what began as a high-tech experiment has had an old-fashioned — and unexpected — result. Wi-Fi access has transformed what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, and behavioral problems have virtually disappeared. |
Source: New York Times (NY - USA) | Published: February 13th, 2010 |
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