New technology welcomes students in Western Springs

This article written by Arcadia Kust is about a school that used technology to get their students in learning. The firth grade students at John Laidlaw Elementary School are now using Chromebooks in the classroom. This is a laptop that uses Google Chrome and Google Documents. The use of these new laptops has gotten students more excited and motivate about school work because it allows them to share more with other and receive more feedback from their instructors. Using Google documents students con write an essay on their computer at home, work on it in the classroom, have their instructor look at it, get their peers feedback, and even have students at other schools observe their work. The fifth grade is not the only one getting help from technology at this school though. The kindergarten through second graders have iPads to work with and the third and fourth graders use Macbooks. One of the teachers says in the article that by use of technology she has students who use to be reluctant writer come up for her asking what else can they do.