Easily accessible from many points in the school, the learning center contains a set of computer equipment and peripherals dramatically different from the machine that Debbie Stubsten first used.
Computers are now accessible to every student, teacher, and administrator.
That frustration moved her to work toward providing access to everyone. Now there is a computer in every high school classroom. In addition, the learning center houses one cluster of 20 computers used by different subject-area classes on alternate days, a second cluster of eight computers, color scanners, and laser printers used for desktop publishing projects, and the school's fully computerized library. Furthermore, every computer in the school and learning center is networked, making access and communication possible from any station. In addition to the curricular uses that technology makes possible in Fairview, time-consuming administrative information collection and dissemination are also computerized.