By Lauren Wood, channel 27 WKBN
It has been nearly a month since the Austintown, Ohio Local School District began rolling out a program that gives every student in 6th grade through 12th grade a Google Chromebook for use in the classroom and at home. Austintown Fitch senior Tara Swecker said she feels like her school’s new Chromebook program is giving her a taste of college a year early. “I think this is the atmosphere of how college is going to be. A lot of the stuff is turning into technology and this is really helping with that,” Swecker said. The Chromebook program is revolutionizing the way things are done at Fitch. Gone are the days of students sitting in rows at a computer lab because the Chromebooks are always with them. “Everything is done online. All their submissions are done online. So this is preparing them to get used to getting away from pencil and paper copies.” 12th-grade English teacher Steven Ward said. He said the new computers help hold students accountable.
http://wkbn.com/2014/12/10/chromebooks-changing-learning-environment-in-austintown/
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