Enhanced Learning Strategy

The Eastern Townships School Board recognizes that one to one computing, using laptops, supported in a wireless environment and properly implemented, can improve the performance of students. The intent of this project is twofold. It focuses on Learning and Teaching. The first primary objective is to enhance our students’ achievements such that improvements in literacy; numeracy; reduction in the repeating of grades; reduction in the dropout rates of Eastern Townships School Board students are attained by June 30, 2007. The second primary objective is to empower our teaching personnel by providing a technological tool for integration into the curriculum and teaching practices  (quoted from the ETSB wesbite).

All students at the Learning Centre have full-time use of a laptop in their academic studies.  Students use the laptops to create a variety of multi-media projects designed to strengthen their literacy and numeracy, and to provide them with the technological competency integral to a successful integration into the current workforce.  Student develop proficiency in using Microsoft software such as Powerpoint, Excel and Word, as well as Apple software such as iMovie and AppleWorks.