Schools to use tablets as learning tools

Pine Bluffs and Burns jr./sr. high school students are entering a new era of education with the introduction of tablets.

Ninth through 12th graders in Laramie County School district 2 will receive a Dell Venue, a device similar to an iPad, for educational purposes starting the beginning of the 2014/15 school year. The introduction of the devices marks a new avenue of learning for high school students in the district, said LCSD2 Technology Coordinator Lisa Horst.

"Students don't learn like they did in the past, they learn totally different," Horst said. "What the school district is trying to do...