| | MARCH 20248IN MY OPINION Classroom technology, such as student Chromebooks, smartboards, and iPads, not to mention all of the software and websites in use, is almost ubiquitous. Since the pandemic, most, if not all, public school districts have had one-to-one technology; each student has their own device that they either take home or leave in locker rooms or their classrooms.I want to make this absolutely clear: classroom technology is beneficial to students and staff. Educating students without technology deployed like this limits students' abilities to use the technology beyond K-12 schools, in universities or in the workplace. Our society is immersed in technology, and we cannot pretend that it isn't in our schools.I've seen good uses of technology in classrooms. In the first 'one-to-one' district I visited, circa 2014, I saw first-grade students working on projects in groups, using their technology in a context where communication with their EMBRACING TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNINGBy Don Ringelestein, Executive Director of Technology, Yorkville CUSD #115Don Ringelestein
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