Technology
Pensacola Catholic High's state of the art technology provides students with the tools that they need for the future. Each classroom features video projection for instruction and closed-circuit television for broadcasting. Wireless Internet connectivity is available throughout the campus. Pensacola Catholic High School is the first school in the entire Panhandle of Florida, to be part of grade-wide 1 to 1 laptop initiative. That is, each CHS student will be educated with the assistance of his/her own laptop which will be used throughout the curriculum as an invaluable learning tool. This is the first step toward Pensacola Catholic High School becoming a laptop school, a learning environment in which students and teachers have 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week access to the tools and resources of the 21st Century classroom.
Catholic High School has been preparing for this exciting initiative for many years. CHS boasts a universal wireless environment and teachers who have been equipped and teaching with laptops for the past two years. In addition, our teachers have been and continue to be involved in an intensive faculty professional development program that enables them to engage students in learning in a truly digital environment. We are very aware that students in the 21st Century learn most comfortably and enthusiastically when they are able to access, analyze, and synthesize information using digital tools. Our laptop initiative is the needed step toward helping our students to achieve and be successful in a fully digital learning environment.
To make this possible, Catholic High School has contracted with Apple, Inc. to set up a lease-to-purchase program for student laptops. By means of this program, each incoming freshman will acquire through CHS the school-assigned Apple MacBook which will become the standard for every CHS student. Apple has offered CHS lease terms that will make it possible for our families to acquire this wonderful learning tool and all the needed software applications, along with 4 years of hardware and software assurances, at a price that is unavailable elsewhere.
Laptop information meetings are held during the registration process to explain the program in detail and answer any parental questions. Also discussed at this meeting is the means by which parents may apply for “laptop assistance” so that we can help to ensure that this wonderful learning opportunity is within the reach of any child who wishes the quality of a Catholic High School education. A laptop case is included with each student's laptop. The laptop case offers protection for your student's laptop and also a secure work environment for use on a desktop surface. And the best part is that they will fit into the student's locker.
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