Students at Oak Hill High School tapped away on their laptops Wednesday. They were getting a high-tech history lesson from their Social Studies teacher, Chad Quesenberry.
"I think education is going away from the pencils and the books. It's being replaced by computers," said Quesenberry.
On Wednesday, schools across Southern West Virginia celebrated digital learning day. At Oak Hill High School, the next generation of students is tossing out last year's text books, and taking on the internet to take on the world.
"Our Freshman students are all issued laptops, and in four years, all our students will have computers. Computers offer something that a textbook cannot which is change. We can bring current research and political research into the classroom the same day it's happening. With a textbook you have to wait sometimes 15 years until it's in print," said Kyle Kent, a U.S. History teacher.
On Wednesday, Kent stood in front of a class with a projected screen discussing the pros and cons of using the Atomic Bomb in World War II.
Many of his students, Kent said, already live on their laptops, so it wasn't difficult getting them started.
In some cases, students like Aaliyah Sears are getting answers to questions that would otherwise never get asked.
"I think back to 6th grade, I would see shy students not being able to ask the teachers for help, but now we just have Google," adds Sears.
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