The Indiana University Southeast School of Nursing received a $25,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation for 50 new laptops computers and related equipment. The laptops are not for a one-to-one initiative or for K-12 students, but the grant does underscore a trend that is likely to gain momentum in K-20 schools across the country: the use of laptops for testing.

Explains Matthew Ralph in a local newspaper article, “When classes at the IU Southeast School of Nursing have to use computerized teaching or testing, students have to split up and go to computer labs all over campus to do it.” The NCLEX — a complex test all nursing students must pass to go into the nursing field — is computer-based.

Known as the AT&T Excelerator program, the grant is one of 34 that will be given by the foundation to nonprofit and educational institutions in the state this year. Since 2002, the AT&T Excelerator program has provided more than 2,500 technology grants — totaling more than $47.8 million — to organizations across the country.

Source : News and Tribune, AT&T grant to help fund laptop classroom for IUS nursing school