In Australian rich, fee paying, private schools, every student has their own lap top which they bring to the classroom and their teachers tell them to open their laptops to begin the lesson. Of course they also use text books. Government schools are just starting to provide laptops to the Year 9 students. One day they might get notebooks.Other schools have computer rooms where the teachers book them in for research/creative writing/graphics/maths games/language learning etc. Teachers often show powerpoints in these rooms to demonstrate some aspect of the subject. Students prepare powerpoints themselves as oral presentations to the rest of the class. Then some school have interactive whiteboards[ smart boards] where the teacher with the use of his/her laptop can show students a lesson from the internet and students can go up to the smart board and tap it like a keyboard to answer questions. There are also class sets of books for various subject areas. Teachers show DVDS relevant to their subject areas. Very few schools use blackboards and chalk. Mainly whiteboards and whiteboard markers are used to explain the lesson's objectives or show how to work out maths problems. Students who can afford it, bring their own laptops/notebooks to classes instead of carrying huge folders for each subject.