High School Students, Teachers Learn Long-Term Benefits of Tablet PCs in the Classroom

Overview

Bishop Hartley High School is a private Catholic high school in Columbus, Ohio. The school's administrators wanted to deploy technology in the classroom to enhance learning for all students. So when Tablet PCs pre-installed with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition arrived in November, 2002, the Diocese of Columbus embarked on an ambitious one-to-one computing program in which students use the Tablet PCs all the time. The ultra-portable form factor, pen-enabled computing, ink-integration for the Microsoft Office system programs, and wireless capabilities have captured students' and teachers' imaginations. Over the years, students have used the Tablet PCs to enhance their individual ways of learning, and teachers incorporated the technology into their lessons.