Carroll's educational technology use is well beyond that of many of America's finest liberal arts colleges. Technology offers powerful tools for students whose ideas flow rapidly even if their reading and writing skills do not. Technology gives access to rich networks of people and information to our students and technology can offer the multisensory inputs that benefit our children enormously. We refuse to
by-pass fundamental literacy skills, but technology has much to offer. For example, every classroom has an interactive white board (SMART Board), the entire campus is wireless, every middle school student is issued a laptop, and homework assignments are provided on-line by many teachers. In addition Carroll employs an educational technology specialist whose job is to work in the classrooms with teachers, research is being conducted at Carroll comparing three software programs designed to teach middle school level reading, math fluency and problem solving is accomplished through software applications, and the Carroll School server hosts many schoolwide technology functions. Winter '09 Everyone at One sessions will focus on educational technology, and Thursday afternoons are set aside for teacher training in technology.