TECHNOLOGY
The addition of iPads at John Carroll Catholic High School this year has changed studying for all students, including seniors Blaze Walsh, left, and Diana Lanza.
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Area schools keying into
digital learning
IPads, laptops replacing pens and paper
Remember the days when you could use the excuse
that the dog ate your homework? That option has
gone to the dogs with the digital age, but advanced
technology more than makes up for it with a stimulating
learning process, as students now study, work, create
and transmit data with little or no paperwork.
Students in school districts throughout the Treasure Coast
benefit from computers in classrooms and computer labs. But
all of the nearly 400 students at John Carroll Catholic High
School in Fort Pierce have iPads they use within a completely
wireless curriculum. The program combines visual and learning
components with 60-inch flat screens, along with Apple
TV, in each of the school’s 25 classrooms.
“It makes it a little more fun learning,” explains Jennifer
Trefelner, director of the office of institutional advancement at
the school. “With the different apps, they see more than they
can on paper.”
Seven years ago, St. Edward’s School in Vero Beach was the
first in the area to go wireless. Every classroom has an LCD
projector and classrooms also have Apple TV to combine
student and teacher lessons. More than 500 students at the
elementary and high school levels are entirely involved in the
one-to-one computer approach with laptops or iPads.
“They would not give up technology for anything,” notes
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BY JERRY SHAW