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April 18, 2006 Osawatomie High School & Marietta Center for Advanced Academics: A Tale of Two Technology Success Stories The success stories look at how two different schools, one a small rural school and the other a middle-class magnet school, have succesfully integrated laptops and tablet PCs into the curriculum. Intel Success Story features two schools who have innovatively implemented technology into their classrooms to help meet their distinct needs. Osawatomie High School, located in a rural town in Kansas, has approximately 350 students. Many of the students come from poor backgrounds and do not have the access to technology resources needed to succeed in the 21st century. Based upon the students' and teachers' needs, the school district implemented a one-to-one computing program to lessen the burden on its at-capacity, three 30-person computer labs. Each student, all 350 of them, received a laptop. And the one-to-one implementation has changed everything from instruction to student learning as well as classroom layout design. The Marietta Center for Advanced Academics, which is located in Georgia, enrolls 300 students from third to fifth grade. The Marietta Center for Advanced Academics was the first magnet school in the Marietta City Schools systems. Students must apply and there are entrance requirements for the school. The curriculum focuses mostly on math and science and laptops were implemented to complement the rigorous academic program. Each student has access to tablet PCs during the day and classroom activity is centered on project and product-based learning. While each school has had a number of successes as well as challenges, the one-to-one computing programs have provided students at both schools with the technological access to build upon skills needed to succeed in the 21st century. To read the entire success stories, click here. |
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