Wireless

I just read this article describing a school in Arizona that is going paperless... or at least textbook-less. I have to admit that I see the world getting a little less paper dependent eventually. Still, it seems a little unfair that while some schools are using textbooks that cover the latebreaking news of WWII ending, some schools are getting a laptop per student. Besides that, I hate to be suspicious of high school students, but each student gets to keep the laptop as his or her own for the year. How many of those are going to last the whole time? So not only are these schools supplying laptops, but they are supplying new laptops whenever old ones fail to hold up for the coming year.

I am all for improving education (even though the article implies that this method will keep those pesky teachers from teaching to the textbook, although most schools' funding is dependent on just that fact), but I am again hit with the issue-- how do you improve education for everybody without overstepping the bounds of fairness? I know education will veer to a more technologically focused regime, but with technology being expensive, I worry for the less advantaged schools.