One-to-One Laptops in Schools

    My freshman year of high school, my school decided to try out the one-to-one laptop for the high school students. This is where each high school student received their own MacBook laptop to use for the year. We were allowed to bring them home and pretty much do whatever we wanted with them. At first, there wasn't any restrictions on websites, so, many students used their laptops to watch Netflix or play games and that became an immediate issue. Over the years, the school learned how to control students using their laptop for websites that weren't educational.
 
    Overall, my experience with the one-to-one laptop initiative was very good. Thankfully, my school spent the money and bought nice, up to date laptops for us, so, they were were fast and useful in the classrooms. It was very helpful to have in the classroom because some of the teachers decided to use eBooks instead of having textbooks in the classroom. Most teachers were open to using more technology in their classrooms, but a few refused to let students even have their laptops out during their class. The school did a great job of encouraging teachers to try to incorporate technology in their classrooms, but some of them were stuck in their old ways of teaching, which is fine, but trying something new sometimes has great benefits!

Although my only experience with one-to-one laptops is with high school students, this is a video of a fifth grade classroom using them. Hopefully, when I become a teacher one-to-one laptops will be available to my students because technology is an important part of a classroom.