NYC Tablet PC Users Increase Academic Performance

A guest post from HP:

The HP Innovations in Education grant program has seen some impression improvements in learning following the use of Tablet PCs.

Over the past six years, numerous New York City schools have received HP grants, including Steinway Intermediate School, a 2008-2009 grant recipient, which saw student grades increase 8.41 points year-over-year in its honors class following the use of HP Tablet PCs and digital cameras into science, math and reading lessons. Another local grant recipient, Isaac E. Young Middle School, used its technology grant to enable students to digitally illustrate a scientific journey through the seven major body systems. The students’ mean test scores in science improved 43 percent from Fall 2007 to Spring 2008. Given the success of Isaac E. Young’s program, HP has awarded the school another higher value grant this year.

Congratulations students for your academic performance improvements as your teachers used Tablet PCs!

Kudos, Teachers, for outstanding achievement.

Thanks, HP, for your generous grants to school districts, so they can use state-of-the-art teaching tools to increase measured student academic performance.

I love the optimism shown by these people, this Education Leadership Team of teachers in NYC public schools. Let us know of other efforts, so we may share them also with readers.

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(Edited November 2, 2009, 5:PM MST.)