Recently students and teachers have been given new technology additions including e-books and Google apps. The new additions such as Google classroom are intended to help communicate in multiple ways with teachers, and the e-books are to have easier access to textbooks.
“Theoretically it’s easier,” technology support specialist Connor Veale said. “The school hopes it makes it easy on kids to keep a phone in their pocket and that’s where their textbook is, there’s an app to download and you get to read on the go.”
The new tech additions brought up concern from the students; many of the students don not have the tools to use the new e-books.
“I can’t access the e-books because I have problems with Adobe on my computer,” junior Michael Sanchez said.
Since some students do not have the tools, they have to take other measures to access them; some do their homework at school, go to a public library, or go to a place with free Wifi.
“I have students before school, during the lunch periods, and after school daily,” librarian Kerri Mack said. “They’re coming to use the print copies of the online textbooks.”
Technology is getting more advanced, the school can use Google apps to help the students communicate and work together with a teacher; however, many students think if the school slowly eased them into using new technology it would have been a better transition.
“I think that today’s technology is advancing very quickly- if it slowed down things would be a lot more developed and thought out,” sophomore Destiny Martinez said.
Introducing new technology takes time to get everyone involved on board.
“It’s in a rough start, but we’ll get used to it and we will work through it, just like we always do when we get new technology,” Veale said.