Technology
All Whitfield students are provided with a laptop. The school hosts a campus-wide wireless network and high-speed wired connections throughout the building. Each student and family is provided an e-mail account for school use.
Whitfield's laptop program faced scrutiny in October 2007, when the St. Louis Post Dispatch ran an article titled "The Laptop Debate." The article contrasted the technology programs of several private schools in the Metro area, saying that Whitfield's laptop program offers more freedom. Whitfield's laptop program has been nationally recognized for the revolutionary program that takes advantage of open-source software and will likely become a model for future school laptop programs.
In Spring of 2012, the school announced a new laptop system for the coming school year. This new program will give all high school students tablet computers that they will be able to keep. These computers will not have to be turned in; they can now be kept over summers by students.
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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)
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—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)