Write a paragraph in which you respond to the New York Times article, “Mooresville’s Shining Example (It’s Not Just About the Laptops),” and relate it to your own experiences here at Westhampton Beach. To what extent are we similar to Mooresville? To what extent are we different? Do you find technology, overall, to be a help or a hindrance in your education?Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Mooresville, NC and WHB
Write a paragraph in which you respond to the New York Times article, “Mooresville’s Shining Example (It’s Not Just About the Laptops),” and relate it to your own experiences here at Westhampton Beach. To what extent are we similar to Mooresville? To what extent are we different? Do you find technology, overall, to be a help or a hindrance in your education?
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I think that we are both alike and different from Mooresville's school laptop program. I think we are similar in the fact that we use the laptops during school, for school projects, and for homework. I think we are different in the sense that we get a lot of freedom at home with the laptop too. We also don't use the laptop for classes like math and we don't use the laptop all the time.
ReplyDeleteCassie period 2
We are similar and different to the school in the article, "Mooresville's Shining Example (It's Not Just About the Laptops)". I feel that we are similar to the school in this article because for me, If I am uncomfortable with a certain concept I can research on things like the virtual reference collection and undertand a lot better. In the article, kids were able to go at there own pace and I feel like the laptops help us do that better. We are different that this school because though the laptops may help, they can also be a distraction. It doesn't mention any of this in the article. I find technology to be a help because I can look up a specific question if I need to and I have everything that I need like textbooks and documents, right in my computer.
ReplyDeleteHaley P. Period 2
Mooresville's "newfangled ideas" about laptops are not really that "new fangled." Here at WHB we take laptops for granted. I feel as though they took it to extreme levels, as the teachers have almost nothing to do with teaching. We are similar to Mooresville in that we have school-issued laptops for every student, but that is it. Our school uses laptops much less than Mooresville, and I think that is a good thing. Relying upon laptops for your sole education tool is NOT a good thing. I believe that technology, even though I'm all for it, is a hindrance to our education.
ReplyDeleteFreesia Ferrantino
David Blechman I think that it was a good article and the kid learned a lot from using their laptops. This was worth giving up 18 teachers positions. The laptops also increased the graduation rate. This is why i think they were worth getting laptops
ReplyDeleteHere are WHB, I feel that our experiences are nothing like those in Mooresville. The Mooresville school district seemed to worship their laptops and technology. They now rely on their laptops for EVERYTHING in the classroom. However, I feel like here, we do not have such a slavish dependence on technology. Yes, we are similar in the fact that technology has played a big part in our education, but I do not think we have gone so far with it. In my personal experience, technology (laptops) has proven to be both a help and a hindrance at different times. When it comes to creating a project, completing an assignment, or taking notes, this laptop has been my best friend. It helps to get things done quickly, cleanly, and efficiently. The organization this laptop has provided far surpasses any binder or folder one could buy. You can keep organized things that would fill 2 or 3 binders at the least in just this one, folder sized machine. On the other hand, this laptop has been a hindrance for me as well. It can be very distracting when I am trying to do work and I am tempted to do something else, which is almost anything on a computer. Overall, however, I would say these laptops have been a big help. They have definitely helped my study habits, work ethic, and organization. I find it much easier to study or complete my homework when using this laptop. It is less to lug around and extremely convenient. This was a good decision by our district.
ReplyDeleteJoey Magro P2
Mooresville and Westhampton Beach have huge advantages in grades because of the MacBooks we receive every year. Kids are getting higher grades, learning easier studying techniques, and they're all able to check their grades on a daily basis. I personally think that our laptops are great for school, but also a good thing to use when you want to procrastinate. Kids download flash games and use iChat and Facebook all the time. Kids can look up homework answers if they wanted to instead of using the book. As I said, the laptops are great for during and after school. Laptops can get our homework done faster, do essays easier, and we get to do fun projects on them using Word or Powerpoint. In conclusion, our laptops give us a great advantage in grades and our school is high in technology as well as Mooresville does. -Collette Delisle
ReplyDeleteMooresville and Westhampton Beach are very alike with their school systems. They both issue laptops to each student for the school year. In Westhampton we use our laptops in mostly every class. It brings in the possibilities of the internet into the classroom. In Mooresville they get Macbook Airs, while here we just get regular Macbooks. Technology I find to help in education. It opens up new ways for a teacher to teach in the classroom. Such ways are Castle Learning and blogs like this one. Teachers need to be careful with technology because kids could abuse it and not use it for the right things when they are supposed to. Computers overall, has made the way I learn in Westhampton much easier then before.
ReplyDelete-Chris Chomicki
WHB is similar to Mooresville for the fact that both schools use laptops as an integral part of their education. The difference between us and Mooresville is that Mooresville had to take 65 jobs and make much bigger classes. WHB did not have to make moves as drastic as these. Technology can help schools because it requires less material and makes for more efficient collaboration between students. It also introduces kids to the future, which will see more technology and computers than ever before. It can be a hindrance because students can use computers to cheat and find entertainment when they should be learning.
ReplyDelete-Liam H
While reading the article, "Mooresville's Shining Example (It's Not Just About Laptops)" I definitely found resemblance between our school and Mooresville's. Obviously, we all have laptops, Macbooks to be exact. All of our teachers (or at least most of them) make valiant attempts to integrate technology in the class. I also kind of got the feeling of almost competition between the educators at Mooresville's school about who can use technology the most, and the best. I suppose something driving this competition was the school's mentality "my way or the highway". Teachers who didn't adapt, got cut. However, a major difference that mainly is an inference is that Mooresville was not a high achieving school to begin with. FIrst of all the location seemed suspicious, the way they talked about Nascar drivers and such. I guess it's kind of a sterotypic inference though. Another thing was how the graduation rate already seemed low, 88% or something like that. I think the reason our improvements aren't so dramatic is because we already do pretty well. I personally find technology a major help in my education. I like typing instead of writing, and the ability of research so easily.
ReplyDelete-Laura
I like how Westhampton Beach offers the laptop program because it gives you a new perspective of other ways to learn. In math, we use a program on the laptops that allows you to see how to graph an equation. In History, we use them to learn about the Silk Road and how it affected the ancient world. In English ,we use them all the time to write our poems. But our school is different than Mooresville because that school offers a broadband internet connection for the people who cannot afford internet at their house. Also, they have programs for almost everything like multiplication activities or self-checking worksheets online and we offer them for different things like schoolwork and mostly for Microsoft Word, but I find that technology in the school to be helpful because you can learn shortcuts to doing something that would make your life a lot easier in the future.
ReplyDelete~Emily Meyer
In the Times article, "Mooresville's Shinning Example (It's Not Just About the Laptops)" was more about how the laptops have helped the students and how it has mad there grades go up. They never once talked about what happens like at Westhampton beach who have the same laptops. they coused a problem that kids were getting distracted or playing games but, if the laptop were to break you would get 2 4:30's and if you did it again you would get the same plus you have to pay $100. so i really think these laptops are a nuisance not a help.
ReplyDeletePatrick Osborne
We are similar and different to Mooresville. Some of the similarities are that at both schools each student has their own laptop. Another similarity is that the laptops at both schools are a huge part of how the teacher now teach the curriculum. At both schools there is also problems with the laptops like crashes and breakage but there are places in the school that can deal with the problems. Some of the differences are that at their school, their graduation rate and success rates on major tests has gone up. I feel that at our school, the laptops haven't made that large of an impact. We also haven't had to cut 10 percent of out teachers and a lot of solid teaching material to afford the laptops. Overall, i find that technology can really help you learn if it is used properly, but with the laptops, cheating is so easy and you can also get distracted super easily. There are always way to get around the blocks that the administrators put on our laptops. So they can be good or bad depending on if the individual student wants to learn with them.
ReplyDeleteCole
Westhampton Beach is similar to Mooresville to a certain extent when it comes to having a laptop initiative for all the students to aid them in excelling in the field of education. However, we are different because Moorseville is located in a place where there isn't "much", its somewhat just out there and near Charlotte, where many Nascar teams live in. It isn't really a place where one would expect to see an education system that provides this type of technology at hand for the students. On the other hand, Westhampton Beach is a more, in a way, "popular" place; it's not located in the middle of nowhere. They also have the newer version of the macs and we have the older versions of the macbooks. I find technology, overall to be helpful because it allows us to learn easier by serving as a tool. It can also be a hindrance as many other things, by acting as a distraction. The laptops help our education as any other device, if used correctly. Daniela C. Period2
ReplyDeleteWe are similar to Mooresville in the fact that we both use laptops as educational tools and we both have high grades. We are different in that we have MacBooks and they have MacBook Airs. I find that the technology overall is a big help because it allows me to look up things on the internet.
ReplyDeletePeter Marotta P. 2
this article was good it was about how the laptops increase education.
ReplyDeletethey are amazing things i think that they help boost education because we are able to research things and expand our education throught the internet
Mooresville is very similar to Westhampton but i feel that the laptop haven't reflected Westhampton test etc... Mooresville got the better side of the use of laptop, they had to give up a a lot of things but it paid off. I know a lot of people in my grade who would play games all period and then fail that class. Overall technology could go two ways it could go a good way were you and your school will having a large improvement in grades and attendance. or it could go a bad way were it just distracts kids.
ReplyDeleteConnor Bing
In the Times article, "Mooresville's Shinning Example (It's Not Just About the Laptops), it was about how the computers help the students with their education. I think that the computer are a good tool to use. I think that it is a little bit of a waste of money, becasue a lot of people use the computer not for school work, or they break them, and then it costs more money. I like having the computers, but some students don't know how to take care of them. I think that Mooresville is similar to our school becasue they use technology everyday and don't use paper that much. It is different to our school becasue our graduation rates have not gone up and also our drop-out rates have not gone down. I wish that since we have computers that we don't need to have paper anymore. Literally everything can be done on these computers. So why are teachers still wasting paper by printing out notes and handouts, etc.
ReplyDelete~Kate Wagner
Prd. 3
I think that Westhampton Beach is alike and different from Mooresville's school laptop program. We are alike because we both use laptops to do school work like projects, homework or do-nows. We are also different because the laptops didn't really help the Westhampton school district, there was no statistics showing that the laptops helped our grades or graduation. It helped the Mooresville's school and showed a great increase in their grades and graduation. We also don't use the laptops for watching videos, but Mooresville does. I think technology overall can help us because its an easier way of communicating and it creates shortcuts also. If we didn't write down the homework for a class, someone could just easily ask a friend over text or IM.
ReplyDelete-Jackie Pendleton
I think that this article showed that the laptops were a big help! Even though they had to let go a few teachers it was definitely worth it. The students and faculty were given laptops to help enhance their learning skills quicker, helpful and more efficient. I think that WHB should get more up to date laptops so we can explore more. I also think that we should use our laptops in more classes then just one to three classes a day. Otherwise in the end I am glad that we got laptops for WHB because it makes our work a lot more easier and quicker an not everyone has a computer at home. WHB having the laptops makes kids more responsible for their school work and grades. In NC i think that it was good how kids could be more social to others and more outgoing if they could use the keyboard for talking. A lot of kids decided to come out of their shells and be apart of more activities outside of school and inside of school.
ReplyDelete~Kennedy Skala
In the times article "Moorseville's Shinning Example (It's Not Just About the Laptops). I found this to be very similar to Westhampton because we are some of the few schools that have Mac laptops for students. The article talked about how the new technology helped the students grades go up, and there attendance level go up. In Westhampton there is no big change in our grade, or attendace, and they break easily. When the laptops break you get two 4:30 detentions and if they break multiple times you have to pay for it. At the Mooresville school you have to a pay a yearly charge for the laptops. Sometimes the technology is hard for the teachers to get used to, and it takes a while for them to get things set up in classes. I think that the laptops are good for writing documents, and using resources to study, and work together on projects. But I don't like how we have online textbooks. Most kids usually play games on the laptops anyone. I think if I didn't have the laptops than my grades would go up a lot, because I wouldn't be distracted by the music, or Facebook or ichat.
ReplyDelete- Katie Vanderslice
Westhampton Beach School District has similarities as well as differences to the Mooresville School District in North Carolina. The main similarities between these two districts is that both are using technology (ex. laptops, smart-boards) to enhance learning. The main difference in these two districts is the complete use of that laptop. By this, I mean that Mooresville uses 100% technology, even in math class. They have altogether gotten ride of things such as hardcover textbooks and globes. Whereas, Westhampton still uses paper in the majority of it's classes. Also, Mooresville District has completely changed their ways of teaching around. The teacher no longer stands up in front of the class for a 40 minute period of time. They now have the students working independently, unless help is needed. In Westhampton, I find technology both a help and a hindrance for me. It helps me with everything possible except for one thing: managing my time. I get distracted by Facebook and Tumblr and iChat and don't get to finishing my homework right away like I would be able to without the laptops. Each child has the decision to go on Facebook whether then doing homework though, so I've gotten a lot better at knocking out my homework before using my computer for other activities.
ReplyDelete-Sarah Culver
Period 3
I believe that we’re both very similar and very different compared to Mooresville. We’re similar in the fact that at Westhampton Beach, we were assigned laptops, and have the privilege to use them during school hours. We both use them for projects, homework, and other school related activities. But we also have many differences compared to Mooresville school as well. For example, at Westhampton Beach, we have a lot more freedom with our laptops. We’re allowed to take them home, and basically do whatever we want with them after school ours. I think that technology can be both a help and a hinderance to education. It’s a help in the fact that we can get things done more quickly, and it’s helpful to the environment! But also, when there are no ground rules with using the laptop at home, it can be a hinderance to the fact that it can be very distracting.
ReplyDelete-Gemma Caglioti
The way we use the laptops here at WHB can be good but isn't always great. On a good note, the laptops help us blog like we're doing right now, and as they say in the article, they do help us work at our own pace. We can also, on the laptops, listen to music, chat with friends, and listen to music whenever we feel like it. They can distract us very easily, and sometimes they are so overused that some students tend to lose their abilities to write. Also, they can be an economic burden to the school. In the article, they say each laptop is $215 per student, and if we have around 1100 kids in the district using the laptops, that amounts to around $240,000 a year, not including reparation fees and other factors.
ReplyDelete-Connor Federico (pd 3)
After reading the article "Mooresville's Shining Example" I felt that Westhampton Beach is very similar. I feel like the laptops help the students in many different aspects. Using laptops can help a student because instead of having to copy information off of the blackboard you can type using Microsoft Word. This is helpful because usually students get bored and stop paying attention but with laptops you become more eager to learn. Laptops are also helpful because they give teachers new ways to teach. They also are helpful because instead of having to carry all of your textbooks around you are able to have access to them all whenever you need them. Overall, I think laptops help out a lot in the school system.
ReplyDelete-Brianna Moore
After I have read the article I had quickly gone to compare Mooresville to West Hampton. We do share many similarities to their program as in giving all the students laptops and I think that by the numbers that this is a program to be used nation wide. This would not only improve grades, especially in poor communities but would lessen the racial performance difference and level the playing field for kids with learning disabilities. However I think the circumstances are quite different and that is why maybe the performance difference in West Hampton is not as noticeable. This is because compared to West Hampton, Mooresville had more minorities wich may have not spoken english or it is there second language and was a much more poor community where some kids did not even have access to the interent. However personally I think that technology has helped me and many other people with our school lives in general, like how it is much easier to organize notes than having a old fashioned notebook and by the statistics have obviously helped many kids and I see no very obvious hinderances except maybe abuse of the privilege.
ReplyDelete-Spencer Jenulis
After reading the Mooresville article I started comparing it to WestHampton Beach. The school in Mooresville wasn't the best school in the world, there were dropouts the graduation rate wasn't good and the grades on the state test were not really good. But when they got the laptops the grades went way up and the graduation rate went up like 70% and the drop outs decreased. In WestHampton the school was already good the grades were good the graduation rate was good so the school got laptops. The laptops increased every thing a little bit but not much since the school was already pretty smart. So this tells you that Mooresville was not really a good school but it was made into a great school because they bought the laptops.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Roese
I think that we have many similarities to Mooresville and differences. I think that using the laptops helps us get more information from the internet. Teachers can only give so much information so using the internet we can look at studies, opinions, percentages, and more. We are different from Mooresville because we didn't have to fire teachers, make classrooms bigger, or take away computer labs. Here we are lucky to have enough money in the budget to let everyone have a laptop, keep their jobs, and keep classrooms small. I think that having these laptops help us so much for school projects and having freedom to use them to talk to our friends and so much more. I feel that having them makes school more enjoyable to everyone
ReplyDelete- Shannon F.
Ryan Duncan
ReplyDeleteMooresville and us at WHB are both so lucky to have the technology to use for research and school work. There is one diference between use tho Moorsevill his give them to people who would not have it if the school did not provide it, and that allowed them to get the hire test scores. I think the computers are good but i like hard copies so much more because there less of a distraction and its just my thing to right things out. The computers help us both but in the long run they helped Mooresvill more.
in the times article, " mooresville's shinning example (its not just about laptops) tells how laptops have helped some schools advance there grades. i think the laptops can be helpful sometimes but can also be a distraction. I don't think they have made a big jump in learning like they did at Mooresville. I think it wasn't worth spending all the money on the laptops for the students.
ReplyDeletejoey hernandez
(-Lucas Mercep) To be honest, I think that we're really not that the same as Moorseville, except for the rather obvious aspect of having laptops.
ReplyDeleteThey really have more problems with the teachers geting used to to the new technology, and have had to lay off some teachers just to allow the use of laptops without much trouble. With WHB being more of a school that likes to move forward with more enthusiasm than others, there hasn't been too much difficulty accommodating the new laptops and technology. Laptops and technology in general, can be a sort of double-edged sword for an education standpoint. They can be good as long as you are not using them for something bad, and vice versa. Technology has a sort of tranquility and neutrality to it. It can be both good and bad, it just depends on who's using it, and what that person is using it for.
In the Mooresvilles article they showed how the laptop(mac) is used at such a young age but it helps. The internet helped the younger grades and the older. The drop outs went down and the attendance went up. Computers are this generations new way to do things easier. You can use a computer for the dictionary, translate, print pictures, type papers for school or work. If every school had a computer i think it would help with a lot of things. I personally don't think it would be bad for students. Technology is used more than anyone thinks.
ReplyDelete-Liam Murphy
WHB is similar to Mooresville for the fact that both schools use laptops as a part of their education. I think that we are similar to the school in the article because, If someone is am uncomfortable or unhappy with a certain concept they can research on things like the virtual reference collection and understand better than they would without a laptop. Instead of having to carry around textbooks and extra papers you could just carry a laptop. Also for unorganized people instead of going through papers in a binders you can just have the document right on your desktop.
ReplyDelete-Sam Terry
I think that the article did bring up an important controversy because based o my personal experience I feel that the lap tops do help me and other students learn and study subjects in school. I also feel that there are other students that don't use lap tops in the proper way, for example durring classes I see other kids playing games or talking to other students on ichat while the teacher goes over important material. Even though the school has a firewall against gaming websites students always seem to find new games or buy computer games and install them and let other friends install their games. I think that the problem of the lap tops of wether they help the students learn or not depended on how mature the student is, if they can concentrate and resist the urge to play games in class. I believe that games and social communications are the reasons why students seem to not do so well in school. In New York Times article, "Mooresville's Shinning Example (Its not just about laptops)", students grades state test, and averages were compared to show the effect that the laptops have on students. Overall I can't really decide on whether it helps or not. I believe that lap tops help students and teachers get through material faster than without them so I'm leaning more to yes that lap tops help education. We are different to the extent that we might have lower or higher grade point averages in our school than Mooresville , but thats about it. -ROGER LLIVISACA
ReplyDeleteI only read part of the article, however it seems that in the article "Mooresville's Shinning Example (It's Not Just About the Laptops)", they focused more on how the laptops help. At WHB, though, they are somewhat of a hinderence to some. The temptation to play games and such is very great, and it is easy enough to do. The Macs definently help, by they are also somewhat of a problem here. We are also don't use them in many classes, sometimes I even go home with 80% battery left.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Ridgway
Westhampton Beach and Mooresville are similar since we both use laptops and have the same properties involving it. We both use them for learning math, history and etc. It helps everyone since we don't have to carry so many books now that they're in the laptops and makes things easier.
ReplyDelete-Jamie Psaras
When reading the article " Mooresville's shining example (its not just about the laptop)." I had realized although when taking a first glance at it, one would assume that we re very similar to this school in terms of technology. However, when reading thoroughly the article I had realized that Westhampton Beach and Mooresville are very different. First off Mooresville has this type of holy aura around the laptops. They claimed that the laptops saved them and drastically improved education at the district while at WHB we seem to just take the laptops lightly and although we do use them for educational purposes we have not noticed a tremendous spike in education as Mooresville has seen after bringing the laptops into the schools. Also in Mooresville they had seem to cut all teachers that wouldn't adapt to the change in technology, there seems to be competition from teachers to see who uses the technology to the fullest. In my own experience I have greatly enjoyed this laptop. it has been fantastic in helping me organize my notes and information in a way that will not get cluttered and messy as a binder or folders would. They help a lot when trying to publish work in a nice neat way instead of my terrible handwriting. In other ways this laptop has had a negative effect on me as well. it serves as a huge distraction when trying to complete homework or study for en exam. In total, these laptops have been a big asset to my education here at Westhampton beach.
ReplyDeleteHenry Seeliger period 3
john Mooresville is similar to Westhampton but i feel that the laptop havent changed Westhampton. Mooresville got the better side of the use of laptop, they had to give up a a lot of things but it paid off.i also think they can be distraction because people play games on them or talk to freinds.
ReplyDeleteThe article, "Mooresville's Shinning Example (its not just about the laptops), provides us with information about how laptops in their school has helped the education of a student. Westhampton, and Mooresville resemble each other in some ways. We Both have great sources of education but Mooresville has gone advanced with the laptops. There are both pros and cons to the situation. Mooresville's caused 65 jobs to be lost, making the class room size to increase. technology in school is a lot faster to learn and understand topics. Mooresville's laptops correct worksheets, assemble progress data for the teachers, allow for compelling multimedia lessons, and allows students to work at their own pace or in groups. Some of the people in Mooresville cant afford to have these laptops so the district negotiated a deal so that families without broadband internet only have to pay $9.99 a month. This is different from Westhampton because a lot of the students here have a lot of things they have to take advantage of and the internet is one of them. Westhampton doesn't have percentages on how the laptop effected our education, but it did effect Mooresville's education in a good way.
ReplyDelete-Cassie b.
I thought that the article is similar to our school in a way. Laptops have been very involved with the learning in the past few years, but at the same time, they aren't so involved that they are life-changing. They make things easy and interesting, but not so much that the graduation rates have increased.
ReplyDeleteAli C
I feel that having the laptops here at WHB is useful, but I also feel that a lot of people just abuse the laptops and use them for other things that don't help their education. WHB is similar to Mooresville in the sense that both schools intended to improve the student's education by getting the students laptops, but they are also different. Mooresville had to lay off teachers and staff in order to get the money to pay for the laptops. WHB had a larger budget. I feel that the technology does help the students with their education, but only if they use it for educational purposes rather than using it to spend countless hours on Facebook.
ReplyDelete-John Tocco
WHB and Mooresville are similar, we both have MacBooks but WHB has more money then that school. school down south dont have the same amount of money then schools in the northern part of the US but thats not the point. I think have the computers help students with a whole lot more.Ex: its easier to find things on textbooks on the computers.
ReplyDeleteVeronica Robinson.
"Moorseville's Shining Example (It's Not Just About the Laptops)" was a good article to provide us with information with other schools besides our own who also use laptops. I think we are similar because both school distracts, use the laptops as a way to improve our education and how it benefits us. I also think it is different because these students seem to only use their laptops. We use other things like paper, and movies, and worksheets at times too. This gave us the impression was their only source of education. I like the way they used the laptops because they used it to make the students more comfortable. I think it has impacted both school distracts positively.
ReplyDeleteLizzie Period 6
I think that Mooresville and WHB are a little bit similar. The two schools are similar because they both give out laptops. But the two schools are also different because the laptops seemed to help Mooresville better than the laptops helped WHB. I think that giving out laptops is a help and a hindrance. I think its a good thing because it can help students to learn quicker. But it also is a distraction to some students because they can cheat easier on tests and play games during class when they are supposed to be listening and paying attention.
ReplyDelete-Michael Pesce
Laptops are very useful things that people can use. Around the world people have the disadvantages of school. People dont have computers or even smart boards to use when they are learning. BUt we have those advantages and i think we should use them to the fullest extent we can. It helps learn the value of responsibility and to help with more resources that can be found onlie rather then in books.
ReplyDelete*~Tyisha Mitchell~*
I believe that we are very similar yet very different to Mooresville. One of the reasons we are similar is that we do get laptops and are able to take them out of school for other work, but one of the reasons we are different is that we have a much smaller school and our status has not been effected by the laptops. This is probably due to the fact that we all ready have a high graduation rate and standardized test scores. Personally i feel that technology helps us learn because we have the resources of the internet and other ways to study. Even though it works for me it may not work for other people who find it a distraction and cant help the temptation to veer away from what they are working on. This could even cause lower grades. - Frank Leotta Pd. 6
ReplyDeletemaybe what ms.tomich said to our class is right, down south they have more "haven't" than they have "haves". therefore stating that maybe with these laptops it does help with them. also what if they use it in a different way, you have to put yourself into their shoes and dont have a lot to work with, so when they upgraded to the laptops, it really made an empact on the school. however with WHB we already had high graduation rate and low drop out rate, so you really didnt get a chance to see the numbers sky rocket.
ReplyDelete-morgan ford
Moorseville and Westhampton Beach is very alike and different. Obviously they live in another state, and they claim that their statics have gotten better. The number of dropouts in their school have decreases, the averages of subject test grades have increased, and more students have graduated. People have claimed that more people have moved there because of their school district. Compared to us, we have had technology for a while now but nothing has changed. Some people still don't graduate and others dropout, and our scores and averages of state tests haven't really increased or gotten better. What's similar is that we both have technology and invest into it and try to make it better for us, the students. I think technology really helps us in many ways. One example is Google Docs. Multiple people can look and work on a document, which can help in group projects. I think that every school district should make an effort to try and get computers or some sort of technology.
ReplyDeleteJhony A. Period 6
I think that our learning experience compared to Mooresville is in a way the same. It is the same because we both use the laptops and we both use software that allows us to gain more access to knowledge. In a way we are also different. We are different because our software is not the same as theirs. They could use different programs then we use and get a better learning experience. I think that the technology is helpful because it has textbooks, note pads, and dictionaries on it.
ReplyDeleteBryan 6th Period
In my opinion, I think that laptops are a good reference during work and class. They let you have an open variety of info and should be used in more schools. I think if we used our laptops even more it could have a positive effect on our grades, just like it did for Mooresville's. - Robert L.
ReplyDeleteThe article "Mooresville's Shining Example (It's Not Just About the Laptops)," show many similarities and differences between Mooresville and West Hampton Beach High School. For instance, the similarities are that we both use laptops to help us with classwork and homework. We are also both exposed to technology and taught to use them in educational purposes not only for social networking etc. But we are different compared to Mooresville because here we use it to finish work or type notes but never to teach us a lesson, and go very much into laptops; unlike Mooresville they go very much in depth with the laptops, and instead of the teacher teaching the students the laptops become their own personal teacher.
ReplyDeleteAlexandra period 6:):)
I think that technology in schools is very helpful, seeing as we are in the era of the internet. Technology can do things that teachers can't. As a WHB student I really like having laptops because it helps me find new ways to learn, not just listening to a teacher or reading a textbook. We are similar to Mooresville because technology has changed the school's for the better, It hasn't drastically changed WHB grades but that may be because we had good grades to begin with. But Mooresville sounded like it had less money in the budget therefore maybe not as great quality teachers/textbooks/technology. I think technology is really helpful when it comes to school because like the article said people learn at their own pace and computers help with that.
ReplyDeleteKelly Mead
Period 6
I think that Westhampton Beach has a few similarities and differences technology wise compared to Moorseville. We are similar because both schools allow every student to receive a Macbook. The teachers of both districts also get Macbook's. We are different than Moorseville though because their students use the laptops and technology to help better their grades, but some students from Westhampton Beach use their laptops for reasons that have nothing to do with academics like, shopping, Facebook, games, and other things. The Moorseville has also increased graduation rates, decreased dropout rates, and a higher ranking on best academics in the state, but Westhampton has really had no change of academics since we got the new technology.
ReplyDeleteRodman Period 6
we are very similar to mooresville. we both have laptops and high graduation rates. but we are also different we didn't have to cut any teachers in order to get laptops and our percentages on things didn't really go up because they were already high. but it is good that the school bought the laptops instead of making the students buy it because some of them may not have enough money and that could make them fail if they dont have them. so as you can so our school and mooresville have similarities and differences
ReplyDeleteKevin C
Westhampton Beach and Mooresville are both alike and similar. They are similar because we both use laptops as part of our education. Also, both schools use laptops for students to research a different way then others can. Laptops are used during school hours in both schools. We are different because Mooresville uses them in school more. We have more freedom and use them at home. Laptops can also be distracting all the time. Mooresville didn't talk about the negatives of laptops. They just said positive things about them. But I do think typing on a laptop is easier then writing with a pen and paper.
ReplyDeleteAlyssa R.
When I first started reading this article, I thought that westhampton & moorseville were the exact same. We both had laptops, used them in school. But as I read further, I realized we use them in different ways and had different results. In Moorseville they said that they had their grades go up much higher and graduation percentage increased. In Westhampton, it hasn't a affected us. It could be because we had computers before at our houses and Moorseville is poor and doesn't. Also, not all the teachers here use it. I find it helpful for help with homework and it keeps us not asleep all the time. So yes. But also some people don't use the computers correctly and get distracted by games and ichats.
ReplyDeleteAndrea Quezada (loves Lizzie)
6 Period.
Mooresville and WHB are alike. We both use laptops and we both have high performance levels. However, this article is strictly bias. I do believe that many students have done better with the technology, but the students from Mooresvile has grown up with laptops ever since (about) fifth grade. The young adults in WHB have students coming from different districts (East Moriches, Tuckahoe, ect.) who did not grow up using laptops for education. For some students, like me, the laptops are a big change and basically just really annoying. The two towns are alike, but we don't compare.
ReplyDelete*Katie Vish*