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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Replacing books with computers shows promise - KATIE PESZNECKER, Anchorage Daily News
The books are open at Wendler Middle School -- MacBooks, that is. Sixty seventh-graders there have received free-to-use laptops. They can't take them home, yet. But they haul them around between classes, use them for note-taking and other assignments, and tap into wireless Internet for easy research and browsing. The theory: Give children constant access to technology and they will read more often, learn better and have fun doing it. Wendler is one of 48 Alaska schools in 18 school districts trying this techie approach. The project is run by the Association of Alaska School Boards and mostly paid for by a grant from the state Legislature.
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