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Wednesday, April 10, 2002
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/2994192.htm Cupertino High School gives struggling students Palms Katherine Corcoran, Mercury News Laptops and Palm pilots are becoming essential tools for many teenagers in schools throughout the South Bay. Cupertino High School gives struggling students Palms. East Side Union High School District is working to get laptops for all 24,000 of its students. Across the nation, schools are taking the radical step of putting portable technology into the hands of children. After years of debate over the use of computers in schools, educators say the new mobility finally will make technology a classroom tool as ordinary as textbooks and paper. ``When you bring the laptop into the classroom, now all of a sudden the technology is transparent,'' said Chris Heumann, science and technology teacher at Kennedy Middle School in Cupertino. ``It's another way to do your regular teaching.'' With equipment prices dropping and wireless networks eliminating cumbersome cables and plugs, educators predict laptops and other hand-held devices are likely to become commonplace in classrooms and backpacks in the next three to five years....
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