Lenovo what?

The first time I met with my tenth grade classroom the teacher was introducing a new unit by using the school's community laptop cart. The students worked in pairs and researched questions from a worksheet. The laptops were used to assess student prior knowledge of World War II and to supplement their reading of Night by Elie Wiesel. The laptops were dated and many of the students had problems accessing the internet. They were slow and most could not hold a charge and had to be plugged in while being used. The school district received a grant a couple of years ago and bought refurbished laptops, a brand I was not familiar with, and the technology is slowly failing. The school cannot afford to hire a tech to fix them so they must adapt to what they have. It is an interesting contrast to be in a classroom where most students have their own iPad, Linden Hall, to a classroom where technology is still governed by financial access. Imagine what students would be capable of if they had the latest technology available to them.