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New High School Is First In Arizona Schools To Have No Textbooks

Empire High School in Vail, located on thepurchase the laptops and added technology
edge of Tucson, is the first in the Arizonaneeds. Some new challenges had to be faced by
schools to be all-electronic. Instead ofthe Arizona schools' new Empire High and
textbooks, the 350 students use wireless,research was done to address them. They had
Apple laptop computers to research, organize350 students, who needed to be continuously
their data, write and graph assignments, andand reliably connected to the Internet at
create class presentations. The Arizonahigh speed. All the laptops had to be
schools Empire High is a new school with aconfigured to best suit the needs of the
blank slate. Arizona schools officials couldstudents for learning. The needed educational
hire new teachers committed tomaterial had to be located on the Internet
technology-based teaching and purchaseand integrated into lesson plans. A method
computers instead of textbooks. The Arizonafor students to submit assignments across the
schools officials wanted to move teachersWeb was needed. These were problems they knew
away from habitual teaching from textbooks,had to be resolved before the school year
cover-to-cover, and gave area students thebegan. What the Arizona schools officials had
choice to attend Empire or another school.not planned on was a different sort of
Having researched schools in other statestechnological problem. It seems that many
prior to the all-electronic decision, Arizonastudents who used home computers for gaming,
schools officials found students who weresurfing the Internet, and X-Box, had a
clearly more engaged in their studies anddifficult time translating these skills to
unusually enthusiastic about school. Onethose needed in school, such as using word
reason was that they took a more active partprocessing software, saving documents to
in the lesson process, rather than everythingspecific locations, and being able to
being "fed" to them. Another advantage toretrieve the files later. Skills training had
laptops over textbooks is that groundbreakingto be added to the lesson plans. For other
information takes five to six years to getschools that are interested in setting up an
into textbooks, especially in the scienceall-electronic school, the Arizona schools
fields. Of the few all-electronic schoolsofficials advise that it must be a public
across the nation, many are doing well fromchoice. You cannot force such drastic
the perspective of both the students and thelearning changes. Include the parents and
educators. The Arizona schools officialsteachers in the planning at the ground floor.
clearly felt they could enhance theirAfter a year, the system is working well
students' educational experience withoverall. The Arizona schools plan to increase
technology over textbooks. Replacingenrollment at Empire High to 750 students in
textbooks with laptops for other Arizonathe  near  future.
schools would prove expensive at $850 each.
For Empire, they took the usual $500 to $600Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools
cost per student for a complete set ofK-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all
textbooks for four years, as well as the costU.S. public and private K-12 schools.
of a computer lab, and used this money to



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