The school that I am teaching at this year is BRAND NEW. It opened its doors this past year (2013-2014), and I totally expected top-of-the-line in the technology department. Every classroom is equipped with a SmartBoard. Math, Social Studies, and ELA are allocated one teacher PC and three student PCs. Science classroom teachers, on the other hand, are provided with only a single teacher-issued laptop.  Every grade level is assigned a class set of laptops on a mobile lab  cart, so every class gets the opportunity to use the technology once every two weeks or so. My answer to this is to regularly write mini-grants to try to increase the technology that is available to my students. So far, I have been able to purchase 5 tablets for my classroom.