Are pupils using laptops in classrooms?

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Just watching the film Senior Year and I know it's set in the US but every pupil in class has their laptop out!

Do school pupils in the UK use laptops during normal lessons e.g. to write essays on? And are exams still handwritten?

Can't believe I don't know this ...

Yes all students at DSs state comp are required to have a Chromebook, bought through the school (free to PPG students). They still do the majority of their work in the traditional way and the Chromebook is more a way of accessing resources but all homework is done via Google classroom and it meant they were able to move really easily to online learning during the lockdowns.

DS has various additional needs and a chromebook and never gets to use the bloody thing. School wifi is crap. I've given up sending it in weighing DS down every day. If his teachers have chosen to attempt to decipher his handwritting, so be it...

They also ignored several documents about pen licences so if turned out that at 11 and halfway through year 6 he was still writing with a pencil which hurts his hands 🙄
Not with a pen contrary to professional advice.
Nor with a laptop contrary to professional advice.

Every pupil in primary and secondary in the council area I live in have a chrome book. Obviously it’s owned by the council but it’s theirs to use and to bring home everyday.
I think the youngest at primary have iPads.
Mine are both primary so I’ve no idea about exams.

All handwritten in our primary and secondary schools.

Homework may be typed or online if specified.

That’s not always the case. My A level class has some students who prefer to hand write and that’s fine and more and more students are typing in exams now.

We are in the US, all students in our district are issued either a personal laptop beginning in year 6. Most work is done on the computer

when My dd was in the lower years, they had classroom tablets, but I believe they are now phasing in issuing personal tablets as well, beginning with year 5.

my dd is a young teen, but even when she was in preschool, her school had computer class to make sure the kids would be ready for kindergarten. All standardized tests are done on a computer beginning at age 5 so it’s important kids are comfortable with tech.

Mine use iPads in secondary school. In primary they share to games twice a week.

I teach in primary, every class has around 12 chromebooks and iPads, we also have 40 MacBooks. Children use them everyday to do things like research, create bar charts, pie charts, make animations, movies, write etc. This week my year 2 class inserted data into a table and made a bar chart, created a pic collage, did spellings and maths on their online accounts, inserted pictures into a document and wrote sentences about the pictures! They’re very ICT literate!