One-To-One Laptop Program Evaluation in a Rural School District

What other factors could have made this evaluation more informative?

Judy...we have done some research in a STEM middle school in Akron on one-to-one computing focused on transforming learning and cultural change. I enjoyed reading your paper, thanks for the virtual presentation! Cheryl

We actually went in just with purpose of descriptive study to discuss the student experience and based on observation and student interviews collected data that lead to thinking about how transformed learning had become based on a number of factors like how they felt about themselves as a learner, how differently they learned now, when, where, why questions,--cultural changes apparent in the school climate and purpose, ways teachers interact with students, how learning is planned to be constructed by students....and much more--we are still working on bringing all the pieces together.

I think achievement is one factor to consider, but the way we measure achievement for 21st century students currently is not at all the way I think they will NEED to achieve, so I am not that passionate about measuring achievement at this point from a traditional point of view. I do think that will become important when we actually figure out how to measure it accurately within the context of real world achievement.

Same bottom line, different idea of what achievement look like for 21st century kiddos!