Thursday, December 13, 2012
Police say the 17-year-old admitted taking a fellow student's backpack and removing a school iPad, which was later sold.
A 17-year-old Wauwatosa West High School student accused of stealing a another student's backpack containing a school-owned iPad and textbooks has been criminally charged. Jeffery T. Robinson was charged Wednesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of theft. If convicted, he could face up to nine months in jail and $10,000 in fines. According to police reports and the criminal court complaint: On Nov. 12, a student reported to the school office that his backpack had disappeared after he left it unattended near an exit during the last hour of classes. School officials reviewed security video and saw three students, including Robinson, gather around the backpack, which had wheels and a pullout handle. Robinson was seen pulling …
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Young 'digital natives' called upon to help older dinosaurs learn 21st Century skills.
As the Wauwatosa School District moved ahead rapidly to upgrade to the latest digital technology and information systems – open mail and document sharing, iPads with open applications, e-readers and more – it found it had a problem. Easy as they seemed to be to use, these technologies were largely unfamiliar to a large number of teachers and staff, who were expected not only to use the devices and software themselves but were also supposed to teach students to use them and to work them into the learning curriculum. So Jamie Price, the district's technology coordinator, had to turn to the experts for help. The kids. "There's been a significant increase in teacher interest" in the new technologies, Price said, enough so that planned teacher-…
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Middle and high school students will have the equipment and software of an office on the go.
For years, college administrators and business leaders have complained that American students coming out of high school are not as well-prepared for the rigors of higher education and the workplace as many of their foreign-educated counterparts. With some trepidation, but also with an attitude that it is a must-do move a decade into the 21st Century, the Wauwatosa School District is opening to middle and high school students the digital technology toolbox used by most professionals and academics. The most cautionary item on a long list of tech initiatives is that all students from sixth grade up – with the exception of a handful whose parents opted them out – will have access to the full suite of Google online applications, including open …
Conservative Digest
7:15 pm on Friday, September 2, 2011
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