I went to Clark Advanced Learning Center (a made for dual enrollment technology high school) back in 2004. We were all provided laptops by the school and we could choose to get an AA or AS degree when we graduated. I had the option to become CNA certified, Adobe certified, among many other certifications offered. We always had access to the latest software for learning and in addition we had a HD production studio complete with a handful of beast desktops for video editing.
I would say that aside from us being guinea pigs so far as giving an entire high school laptops, that it was a positive experience for me.
The downsides were related to students who didn't care to learn wasting their time playing games (at any given moment there were 40-80 students playing counter-strike over LAN). There were also some failures of the administration and the teachers themselves in becoming certified which means your credits become "credits" for college and are thereby demoted to "electives" despite them being recognized courses at the time.
I adblocked facebook connect a long time ago due to privacy concerns. Facebook already knows enough about me - my friends, my family members, my interests, the places I've been tagged. They don't need my personal browsing history.
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I went to Clark Advanced Learning Center (a made for dual enrollment technology high school) back in 2004. We were all provided laptops by the school and we could choose to get an AA or AS degree when we graduated. I had the option to become CNA certified, Adobe certified, among many other certifications offered. We always had access to the latest software for learning and in addition we had a HD production studio complete with a handful of beast desktops for video editing. I would say that aside from us being guinea pigs so far as giving an entire high school laptops, that it was a positive experience for me. The downsides were related to students who didn't care to learn wasting their time playing games (at any given moment there were 40-80 students playing counter-strike over LAN). There were also some failures of the administration and the teachers themselves in becoming certified which means your credits become "credits" for college and are thereby demoted to "electives" despite them being recognized courses at the time.
I adblocked facebook connect a long time ago due to privacy concerns. Facebook already knows enough about me - my friends, my family members, my interests, the places I've been tagged. They don't need my personal browsing history.