The Bancroft-Rosalie School Board approved the purchase of 60 Asus net-book computers for students in grades 11 and 12 this fall. This "one to one initiative' means that juniors and seniors will each be given a net-book computer for their own personal use 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The computers will be issues on Thursday August 13 in the school library. Students must be accompanied by a parent. Two meetings will be held on the 13th, at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm. The school one-to-one computer policy will be explained and must be signed by both the parent and student before a computer will be checked out. The policy meeting will detail what the computer can be, and cannot be, used for.
The net-book computers cost $375 each and are an inexpensive way to implement one-to-one on a trial basis. The plan is to continue adding grades each year until all high school students have personal computers. During this trial period, student use will be followed closely to determine if net-book's meet the needs of the students, or if notebooks should be purchased in the future.
