The day has come when all students in grades five to twelve in Munster School District in Indiana are now told to open their laptops instead of their textbooks by their teachers. The school district completed a $1.1 million overhaul to ensure that all of its 2,600 students were able to use laptops for their math and science lessons.

Ironically though, it's not the students but the teachers that are stressed out with this new development. As teacher Pat Premetz states, "The material we’re teaching is old but everything around it is brand-new." She describes the initiative as both “very overwhelming” and “the most exciting thing to happen in my 40 years of teaching.”

While it's not the first time that an entire school district has made the laptop leap, the Munster school district is part of a "new wave of digital overhauls" in 24 states that have historically forced schools to choose textbooks from approved lists.

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