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1-1 Learning

Resources by and about schools involved in Apple 1-1 Learning Programs.

Learning now goes beyond books and class lectures at Corcoran High School.

Students have stepped into the fast-paced world of the Internet, thanks to a laptop program implemented last spring.

"I can get information easier," said freshman Jake Ellis during Thursday's class, his eyes barely looking up from a Web site describing the conflict between the Chinese and Japanese during the 1930s.

The laptop program kicked off a year ago at John Muir Middle School in Corcoran after the campus received a state grant for $150,000. The school bought about 120 laptops for eighth-graders, Superintendent Rich Merlo said.

Corcoran Unified School District trustees recently approved a proposal to buy 365 more laptops -- worth $500,000 -- for English instruction at its middle and high schools.

Merlo said the goal is to eventually phase laptops into the core program so students would be able to take them home, similar to the middle school program at Clovis Unified School District. The Clovis program allows students to use their own laptop every day. Some students also can take laptops home.

This semester, it was Corcoran High School students' turns for laptops, and Merlo said early indicators show a positive trend.

"I'm elated," he said. "It's like 100% engagement. Kids are turning in assignments that never turned in assignments before. It's a great start."

He said using laptops as a teaching tool makes sense because most students already know how to operate the portable computers.

1-to-1 and Pedagogy

01 Mar 2007

The March Newsletter Started the Dialogue... What's Your Contribution?

01 March 2007:In the March 2007 AALF newsletter, One-to-One, AALF president Bruce Dixon and AALF members Lorrie Jackson and Michael Valentine provide critical essays on 1-to-1 and pedagogy. As the first part of a two-part topic, we wanted to open the issue up to all AALF members: What's your opinion on this month's essays?