The good news from this story, "School districts get $7 million in tech grants - Money will help teachers conduct interactive lessons", - "Los Angeles and Glendale schools will receive about $7 million in federal funds to buy laptops for students and to train middle-school teachers in technology education."
The bad news from that very same article:
According to state school officials, 60 percent of computers at California schools are at least 4 years old and 27 percent of teachers statewide were rated as technologically proficient.
Ouch! ONLY 27% of teachers statewide were rated technologically proficient?? I looked at the California proficiency standards, there is little there to make me believe that these teachers are being asked to jump through extraordinary hoops in order to be classified as technologically proficient...granted, as a geek, I could be wayyy off base here, too. But let me ask this: If 73% of the teachers are NOT technologically proficient, does anyone else see a problem with those teachers being able to generate technologically proficient students?