Educators around the world are taking a new look at integrating today's portable computing technology into the delivery of existing curriculum.
As a result:
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Participating students and teachers are no longer limited to a computer lab or a home or classroom desktop. |
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They are significantly are more engaged with the learning process. |
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They are finding new excitement in researching, organizing, and presenting thoughts and ideas. |
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And they're doing it anytime and anywhere! |
"It takes them beyond the classroom, beyond the library, beyond anyplace teachers have taken them before."Herman Gaither, Superintendent, Beaufort County School District
With their introduction of Toshiba's Notebooks for Schools program,
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Participating students and teachers are no longer limited to a computer lab or a home or classroom desktop. |
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Students from widely diversified backgrounds now regularly share learning experiences that have been enhanced by their use of the notebook computer |
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Parents are becoming more involved in their child's learning. |
"If technology is going to play such a big part in the world today, it's only right that students should have access to that technology, and to access it on their own, individually, when they need it. If that's what they are expected to use in the business world, I think we should train them to use it in the educational world."
Teacher Cheryl Smith
School districts, neighborhoods and entire communities are working together to help deliver "Anytime, Anywhere" learning through Notebooks for Schools (NFS). From increased collaboration between faculty and staff, to establishing community-wide sources for funding, participants in Toshiba's NFS program benefits that reach far beyond the walls of a classroom.
"The biggest issue in integration of technology is always making sure that the technology is not the curriculum objective; that it is only a tool for whatever objectives you have had all along."
Teacher Kelly Hammond
Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., in partnership with Microsoft Corporation's "Anytime, anywhere" learning, introduced Notebooks for Schools in April, 1997 in support of data that demonstrates that the educational experience can be significantly enhanced by using computers as a integral part of the educational process—to collect, assimilate, refine, and communicate knowledge. This goal can be accomplished with individual student ownership of mobile personal computers.
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