New Technolgy welcomes students in Western Springs

 In Western Springs, based on the integration of 30 Google chromebooks to the fifth-grade classrooms at John Laidlaw Elementary school, Teachers are finding new ways to use technology during the school day and students are responding with great motivation. A chromebook is a laptop that uses a google based web browser,as its operating  system. Students and teachers have also used the chromebooks to create online quizzes that are accessible through google Documents. They complete the quizzes and the students who created it can input the scores into google spreadshees and average how well everyone did, what questions were most commonly missed and toher analytical data.