Personal computers coming to high school students

KOKOMO, Ind. — Freshmen enrolling at a central Indiana high school will receive either a laptop computer or a tablet device next fall as part of a technology push that aims to equip every student with a device by 2015.

School officials say students at Kokomo high School will be able to keep the devices during school hours but must return them at the end of each school day for upkeep and recharging.

Principal Rick Hagenow tells the Kokomo Tribune that the technology program reflects the ways today’s students learn and will create more collaboration between teachers and students.

Teachers will undergo training to determine the best ways to use the devices in the classroom. He said teachers, curriculum supervisors, administrators and IT directors will collaborate to implement a new, technology-based curriculum, but the process is a work in progress.