Northfield Schools Want a Tablet in Each Student's Hands
The district wants to put a tablet—a cross between a smartphone and a laptop—in the hands of each of Northfield’s 3,900 students and most of its staff.
Let’s get digital. Or so say administrators at Northfield Public Schools. Superintendent Chris Richardson and Matt Hillmann, district director of human resources and technology, have been making the rounds to different community organizations in recent weeks pitching the idea of transforming Northfield’s educational system. In short, the district wants to put a tablet—a cross between a smartphone and a laptop—in the hands of each of Northfield’s 3,900 students and most of its staff. The tablet would replace most items in a traditional classroom—textbooks, notebooks, quizzes, DVDs, handouts and just about anything else paper-based. Extreme? It’s already happening elsewhere. Recently, the school board for Lakeville Public Schools approved …
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Joan
8:01 am on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
I just weighed four of my daughter's five text books. 18 pounds. Try and carry that in your backpack. more ›