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At Brookfield High School Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,, an HP Technology for Teaching Grant created an interactive classroom environment in which mobile computers enable independent learning and freedom from classroom constraints. It changed the way technology is being used in the classroom.
“Students with access to HP Tablet PCs are doing more work. They’re more engaged in exploring and learning,” says Beverly Wilkinson, a science teacher at the school. “Teachers are becoming facilitators for learning. It’s a whole new classroom dynamic.”
In 2004, Wilkinson heard about the HP grant program, and HP invited her colleagues to apply. She worked with a team of five Brookfield teachers to develop a grant proposal based on studying the environmental health of Brookfield and the surrounding community.
Objective:
Enhance K-12 education through mobile technology access in the classroom.
Approach:
HP Technology for Teaching grant provides HP Tablet PCs, digital projectors, digital cameras to expand classroom learning opportunities.
Educational benefits:
• Classroom becomes more interactive
• ESL students freed from note taking to become interested learners, researchers who can concentrate more on classroom lectures
• Special education students enabled to communicate more effectively
• Collaboration facilitated among teachers
• A “bank” of learning resources is created for teachers
