Our students and teachers are involved in a number of laptop projects, each sharing the same goals:

• to provide inquiry based learning opportunities for our students,
• to provide equal access to technology and digital tools of the 21st century,
• to provide our students with authentic learning experiences, and
• to foster 21st century skills like problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and teamwork. 

Our projects include:

Junior Literacy Writing Project – Grades 4-6
Assistive Technology project – Grade 5/6
One to One Laptop project – Grade 7 & 8
Mobile Media Lab – elementary and secondary Native Language and Native Studies
Secondary Laptop Project – 9 cart pilot

Junior Literacy Writing Project – Grades 4-6

Each school has a mobile wireless cart with 15 iBooks.  The laptops are rotated through the Junior classes for inquiry based literacy writing projects.

Assistive Technology project – Grade 5/6

Ninety iBook laptops have been distributed to students in Grades 5 and 6 who will be using the assistive technology features on the laptop such at text to speech support and writing support with word prediction, grammar, and vocabulary support to any word processor to name a few.

One to One Laptop project – Grade 7 & 8

Every student in Grades 7 & 8 is assigned a laptop in September to use throughout the school year with optional take home privileges. Students use web 2.0 tools and are engaged in inquiry based project learning in all subjects.

Mobile Media Lab – elementary and secondary Native Language and Native Studies

Our newest laptop project is a mobile media lab complete with 5 MacBook laptops, digital video and still cameras, wireless microphones as well as headsets with a boom microphone for recording.  Students in our Native Language and Native Studies classes will produce a variety of media projects that showcase aboriginal culture will use these kits.


Secondary Laptop Project – 9 cart pilot

A grade 9 student at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School works with a MacBook in geography class

We have expanded our laptop program into our secondary schools. We currently have nine carts that are being used by teachers across Grades 9 to 12 in a wide variety of subjects that include Math, English, Science, Geography, Accounting, Art, and Drama.  The focus is on inquiry based project learning.  We are planning to expand the project to include more teachers and other classes in a shared model where students would access the laptops for project work on a rotation.