The Technology
Dell is the number one supplier of the technology at Crooms. Each student is issued a laptop based on grade level and return condition of previously issued laptops. Every classroom is equipped with a desktop computer for the student to use in case their laptop is being repaired.
The school's media center functions as a standard high school library with attention given to providing a location for students to bring their laptops and have a quiet place to study with charging stations located in several areas around the room.
An iMac lab is available on campus which students use in conjunction with their core and elective classes to edit videos, create podcasts, and develop other multimedia projects while learning the Mac OS.
The school also features SMARTBoards in every classroom with the exception of computer labs. The SMARTBoards act like regular whiteboards except there is no ink or marker waste. Lessons "written" on the board can be saved to a computer, uploaded to BlackBoard, and easily accessed and downloaded by students from school or home.
Many students who are technologically savvy have shown their skills in various ways, some make programs, others build computers, and some have created websites (The Crooms AoIT website is maintained by students in Web Design III)
Read more about this topic: Crooms Academy Of Information Technology
Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)