Liberty High School students undergoing digital transformation
LIBERTY, Mo. - We often refer to high school as a time of
transformation for students. In the Liberty Public Schools,
however, it's the schools themselves that are being transformed.
They are calling it a digital transformation.  Martin Jacobs is
the principal of Liberty North High, and he knows the idea
sounds funny at first.  "Giving young students, everyone, a
laptop computer can have a lot of people skeptics," he admitted.
But that's exactly what they are doing. Whereas, many people
might think of yet another screen as just another distraction
for students, both Liberty high schools are planning to use them
to increase students learning power.  Right now, only about 200
students are participating in the pilot program, using the
laptops in just a few classes. It's a work in progress.  "We
were like 'Oh, cool we have laptops' and stuff and then we
realized what we could and couldn't do and we were like 'OK,
maybe this will actually help me ge