The+Paperless+Campus

With technology continually changing and becoming more affordable, school districts must examine and consider replacing old and outdated textbooks and the traditional pedagogy of last century with training and education through the use of technology achievable through the implementation of student laptops to create a paperless campus that resembles our rapidly changing technologically dependent society. The focus of this initiative is to examine to cost of replacing all the textbooks here at Tech and issuing laptops to incoming freshman over a four year phase until all textbooks have been replaced and Tech becomes the “Paperless Campus.”





In this day and age of technology, there is a term know as “The Digital Divide” which defines the separation between the “haves” and the “have- nots”. “ Rural households are less likely to have Internet access than suburban households. Blacks and Hispanics are less likely to have Internet access than Whites and Asian Americans. The young are haves; the old and disabled are have-nots”. As a teacher with children of his own, I sometimes assume that all my students have an internet access or at least a computer at home on which to complete their assignments. It wasn’t until I started my Masters in Educational Technology that I was exposed to the reality that there are many students in my class who don’t have the technologies I assumed they did; there are several schools in the state that don’t have internet access in each room or only have one computer lab to share between populations of 1200 students. This new information has challenged me to revise my philosophy of education so in order to do this I needed to identify what I thought was important and what needs to be changed in education.
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