Dear L.,
You touched on a couple of things with your comment. A laptop for each student will help the school "go green." The pilot at Grade 8 has shown that less paper is used in a 1:1 classroom. Less printer toner is used. Instead of buying every student a textbook, perhaps the textbook could be on the computer. Classrooms would then only have to purchase a "classroom set" of textbooks (if any).
Yes--you do have to save your schoolwork correctly. There will be computer training to help you learn how to work on your homework so it is less likely to get "lost."
I was glad to read that you would still "carry around" your Accelerated Reader book. Ebooks have a lot more flexibility for understanding and learning, but we still have to purchase the electronic copies. I hope we do more of this in the future. Just think of it! As a student, you could be reading a book and also be able to connect to an interview with the author, word definitions, a video about where the book takes place, or avatars of the characters!
Ms. Sherrill
