We booted up the i21 netbooks in rooms 35 and 38 on Friday. They are state of the art and they work well.
Giving students the power to access a universe of material from keyboards in front of them holds the potential to help us focus on activities to help us more quickly and more effectively meet the California English Language Arts standards. The MMHS English Department continues to focus on writing; the keyboards will be vital tools to help students practice more writing in the less time. Moreover, they will help create a culture of revision, making writing more authentic and enabling students to more quickly establish their own ideas about what makes for good writing and effective communications. Reading, too, will be easier when every student is able to move around the world electronically to find and analyze texts.
Giving students the power to access a universe of material from keyboards in front of them holds the potential to help us focus on activities to help us more quickly and more effectively meet the California English Language Arts standards. The MMHS English Department continues to focus on writing; the keyboards will be vital tools to help students practice more writing in the less time. Moreover, they will help create a culture of revision, making writing more authentic and enabling students to more quickly establish their own ideas about what makes for good writing and effective communications. Reading, too, will be easier when every student is able to move around the world electronically to find and analyze texts.