Her school offers four full-time teachers, two part-time teachers in art and music and 3.6 computers for each pupil.
Hard-copy, paired, "before" (prior to the use of the computers) and "after" questionnaires were used for pupils and school staff, involving questions on a 1 5 Likert scale for self-assessment of attitudes and free text (Table 1; Additional file 3).
At the time he called instead for pupils to learn computer coding so that they could produce simple animations or their own smartphone apps.
The program for years has offered computer literacy, tutoring and educational activities for pupils of nearby elementary and middle schools.
The Estyn report wants more portable technologies such as tablet computers used in schools and more help for pupils who are "more able and talented to reach their potential".
The government of Extremadura proposed the introduction of a computer for every two pupils in state secondary schools since 2000.
At present there is only one computer for every 18 pupils in the average primary school and one for every nine in secondary schools.
While private schools had been installing computers and linking them to the internet and their own internal intranets, the state primary schools in 1998 were providing only one computer for every 18 pupils; only 17% of them were linked to the internet.
She is now hoping to expand and open an upper school for pupils who are 14+; their first project will be to build their own computer.
Here, it's not unusual for pupils to use a camcorder to record a movie and then edit the footage on a computer.
