Brownwood schools aim for paperless classrooms - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Jul 09
  

  Roger Zuidema

  education trends paperless technology

  • ambitious plan to be a paperless school system in the next five years or so
  • Blincoe believes that grant probably came through largely because the district already dedicated about $1.2 million to equip all 1,000 high school students with laptops this fall.
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  • • “I’m going to try my hardest to get to a point where we’re totally paperless,”
    • Any education system can sustain this kind of program, but you have to get rid of some of the other costs you incur.”
    • Currently, the state approves texts for each subject to be replaced on a cycle about every 10 years.
    • “Say I have 400 copies of this book coming from the state at an average textbook price of $125 a piece,” Blincoe said. “That’s $50,000. I could say send me a class set of books and put the rest of that money in my account and we’ll have to prove that we spent it on educational materials and technology that fit in with the (state’s grade-level education standards). They are still working out the details.”
• 23 Jul 09
  

  J. J.

  I wonder what the possibility of this might be and how it would change how students learn.
  
  “Maybe this is bold, but I hope in five to 10 years people won’t recognize a classroom,” he said. “I hope they will walk in and say, ‘Man, this is nothing like the classroom I used to be in.’ There may be students on the floor, lying in bean bags with laptops in front of them, but they will be engaged, working with their peers and excited to go to school.”

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  Milton Ramirez

  The district earned $500,000 with the state’s Vision 2020 Immersion grant that pays for every eighth-grade student to have a laptop as early as January. Blincoe (Brownwood Independent School District Superintendent) believes that grant probably came through largely because the district already dedicated about $1.2 million to equip all 1,000 high school students with laptops this fall.

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