Educators in Pampa, Texas, recently announced the dispersal of 1,000 laptops to all of Pampa's high school students in an effort to prepare them for professional computer use by teaching the basic skills of digital integration, Connect Amarillo reported.
While teachers and administrators note that students are more than adept at using computer technology leisurely and socially, literacy with widely-used professional software is not particularly high, and using laptops in a strictly academic setting can go a long way toward familiarizing students with academic and professional computer programs.
A student who has access to a laptop, an interactive whiteboard or a
DLP projector experiences academics in a much more in-depth way than a student with limited technological resources does. In some fields of study in particular, like biological and physical sciences, students benefit from state-of-the-art technology and multimedia resources that expand understanding to the senses, improving cognition.
"In the classroom, students will be able to create not just word documents and things like that but videos," Suzie Jameson, director of technology at Pampa High School told the news source. "They'll be able to create music, they'll be able to create any type of product."
