On Wednesday, Paula, Gayle, Jen, Laurie and I, went to Lilla G. Frederick Middle School in Dorchester to see their 1:1 wireless laptop program. The school, which opened in 2003, is in its second year with 1:1 laptops. Each of the 720 students has a laptop for use during the school day (they don't go home for safety reasons).
It was an incredible, inspiring environment where the passion and dedication to technology is really in the DNA of all who work there. Technology is in the culture top-down, bottom-up and everywhere in between. I think that's one crucial piece of what makes it work.
ADDITIONAL INFO ABOUT THE SCHOOL:
http://www.lgfnet.org - their internal website with student, parent, teacher and community resources. Includes teacher websites, "rules of the road", pd documents, "bagels and laptops" calendar.
http://www.lgfpms.org - the Lilla G. Frederick Middle School homepage
There are at least 1,000 other things to say about all that we saw yesterday. I just want to get this post out there to start the sharing and the dialog.
Deb
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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