School officials in Asheville, North Carolina, hope to expand a laptop program previously implemented for freshmen and distribute the devices to all students at the local high school and School of Inquiry and Life Science beginning this year, according to a recent Citizens-Times report.
One of the reasons school officials want to extend the project is because of the education possibilities laptops provide teachers.
"The way the staff are responding to the teaching they are able to do (with the laptops) has made it a must," Matt Whiteside, Asheville City Schools instructional technology and media services director, told the Citizen-Times. "When you start teaching with a laptop, it changes everything you do."
While laptops offer teachers and students a litany of ways to access information, other technology - tablets, classroom projectors and interactive whiteboards - also can improve the education process.
Whiteside also told the Citizens-Times that the city is happy with the previous laptops it purchased, but must broaden the project under the allotted budget. According to the report, the system will cost approximately $100,000.
