The Encyclopaedia Britannica is good because it holds the knowledge of many fine minds. Second, it gives us an example of the challenges of building and maintaining effective technology tools at the high school level. Only a very rare K-12 class would receive this allocation of resources. There are several useful information technology investments that I might suggest at Lakeside. This to preclude running wiring to many of the classrooms that would otherwise need an occasional connection to the network.
Storage system upgrades to facilitate collection of materials useful to educators.
Further, add a file space that is set aside for sharing and storing work for group projects. Assurance of universal access to the Web and to science and math tools for those areas where concepts are effectively demonstrated on PC's. None of these useful applications depend on laptops. Also, laptops may turn students away from the discipline of mind we so dearly need. Thus, I conclude, we should not procure laptops for our students, and we should not allow laptop use during seminar and class discussions.