Wi-Fi-Equipped School Bus Sedates Rowdy Teens With Their Favorite Opiate: The Internet | Popular Science

Wi-Fi-Equipped School Bus Sedates Rowdy Teens With Their Favorite Opiate: The Internet | Popular Science

Beep beep, here comes the Internet Bus

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 02.12.2010 at 1:58 pm 17 Comments

Rolling Study Hall Homework for the road Joshua Lott/NYTimes

Putting a mobile Internet router on a yellow school bus has transformed a crowd of rowdy, bored teens into a quiet and well-behaved flock of studious students. That experiment at the Empire High School outside of Tucson, Arizona may soon replicate itself in school districts all across the nation, the New York Times reports.

The high school had already become a "digital school" in 2005 by issuing laptops instead of textbooks to students, and by offering strong Internet signals in every classroom as well as on the football field. But school officials decided to outfit a bus as a way of extending student productivity outside the classroom.

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