The Savvy Technologist

Teachers jazzed

We had our first meeting with the group of teachers who will be participating in our 1:1 computing pilot project next year. I think I mentioned this before, but we’ll have about 550 students and 23 teachers with 24×7 access to Apple iBook laptops beginning in January 2005. The purpose of our meeting this week was to answer teachers’ questions about the project and, certainly most interesting to them, distribute their shiny, new 15″ Apple PowerBooks.

I had met nearly all of the teachers previosly, so I knew we had a good group. This meeting was one of the most exciting things I’ve done in the year I’ve been in Hopkins. The teachers came up with tons of great tech integration ideas right away, they asked great questions, and had such great attitudes that I’m sure this project is going to be a success.

I will use this space to keep everyone posted on some project developments.