High Tech High

Microsoft has helped build a brand new high-tech high school in Philadelphia. Every student will have a Tablet and the roof will be green. Will it change student performance or just make them more gimmicky?

“In those schools where we've introduced technology into the classrooms in such a way, the children are better behaved, the attendance is much better and the children are doing better academically,” says Vallas (CEO School District of Philadelphia).

Interestingly enough, the conditions for graduation include a requirement that you apply for college. Would this change the next generation of Geomatics students all that much? Will this allow us to focus less on the technology and more on the GIScience? It will be interesting to see.