Our county is a small, rural county of 16,000. Our school consists of 800 students in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Our technology committee, like those of so many schools, went scouting for grants. For several years, we were driven to compete for anything and everything that looked like feasible money for technology. Teachers were not technology-literate, and we intentionally moved cautiously and slowly.
Technology changes rapidly.
We tried to guess at what lay ahead. We made plans and stuck to them. We accomplished objectives and moved on to others. Today, our school has 190 networked and Internet-capable computers in our school. We have three computer labs with 21 computers in each.