Tuesday, September 11, 2012

New Technology in the Classroom


John Laidlaw Elementary School in Western Springs integrated 30 Google Chromebooks to the fifth grade class.  A Chromebook is a type of laptop that uses Google Chrome as the search engine as its operating system.  This can run thousands of applications that are stored online through the cloud.  The students are getting use of the application Google Documents which allows them to write an essay on their own computer, then other students, or the teacher, can get online and read and edit it.  The fifth grade teacher, Ashley Klem, helped the school get grants to purchase the Chromebooks and she has had great success with them.  Klem says it makes her job easier and the students are getting a lot out of it and they actually look forward to school work now. 

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