“Our students are going to be competing in the global marketplace in the 21st century, and they deserve 21st century classrooms,” says Casey O’Brien, principal of Aptos High School. His school is facing a serious problem. While it strives to prepare students for the 21st century, the technology at its disposal is very much 20th-century, slow and often incapable of running the latest programs.
“Our students are going to be competing in the global marketplace in the 21st century, and they deserve 21st century classrooms,” says Casey O’Brien, principal of Aptos High School. His school is facing a serious problem. While it strives to prepare students for the 21st century, the technology at its disposal is very much 20th-century, slow and often incapable of running the latest programs.
The problem is counter-intuitive. Aptos is a relatively well-to-do community, but its computers are more dated than those used in schools in less affluent Watsonville. The problem, explains O’Brien, is that his school is ineligible for special funding targeted at either low-income or low-achieving students.
Until Aptos can afford its own equipment, it will be using Pajaro Valley High School’s old system, which is three years old. One of the major problems facing all schools is that the technology changes so quickly that it is outdated soon after it is purchased. Read more at Santa Cruz Sentinel.
