Welcome to technology in the classroom where once again, we try to see what can be manufactured forced upon us and hopefully it will help students learn. Observations on what I saw that people would consider technology: There is a single computer, an Apple laptop that is the teachers hooked to a pair of speakers and an Epson projector. There is a cart full of iPads in the school that can be reserved for specific days. By chance I did see that there are Vernier probes but I'm guessing that is limited to just the teacher and a select few other computers in the school. While this school has a state policy of no cell phones out during class, there is soft enforcement of this rule and one student did look up the term "sublimation" to see that it was real. The enforcement comes when a student is using the phone more for a distraction than as a tool to find information.
Other tech that is tech but is not so obvious. There are white boards and magnets holding up papers. Each student has a calculator, pencil, paper. There is the lab equipment from fish tanks, beakers, laser pointer, light boxes, DC current boxes, etc that I have observed. Technology exists, it just isn't always Star Trek but it isn't necessarily Grog the Caveman bashing a stone down on something either. There's a spectrum and it runs pretty wide in this classroom.
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