Room 3’s Blog

At the recent Learning@School conference (last week), Wes Fryer (an international educator and blogger from USA) gave a lot of publicity to Fairfield Intermediate and their laptop classes.

Fairfield Intermediate : Home (Hamilton, New Zealand)

This is the school where Erin Freeman is teaching, there are five classrooms which are student BYOL (students bring their own laptops to school) – very progressive, this is the first school I’ve ever heard about which is following this model

more fromwww.fairfieldintermediate.school.nz

My thoughts: Why aren’t we doing this? I have tried but there seem to be too many stumbling blocks. Why can Fairfield do it and not us?

What do you think about having laptops? Would your parents be prepared to buy you one to use at school ( & home)? I am really interested in your comments.