Ten years later, each seventh- and eighth-grader in Maine public schools and every grades 7-12 teacher has a laptop paid for by state taxpayers, at an annual cost of $11 million
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And, through the Maine Department of Education, 60 percent of Maine high-schoolers have laptops, paid for by local property taxpayers. That's a total of 72,000 laptops, according to the DOE
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students do not get to keep the laptops
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I poked around and found the Maine site containing the information: http://www.maine.gov/mlti/index.shtml
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...but do students get to take the laptops home? What is their acceptable use policy? What user agreement do they use?
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A 2009 study by David Silvernail of the Maine Education Policy Research Institute at the University of Southern Maine showed that laptops helped students become better writers, boosting writing test scores statewide
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In 2001-02, Freeport Middle School's eighth grade passing rate on basic math tests was about 50 percent. In 2009-10, it was 91 percent, math teacher Alex Briasco-Brin said
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In physical education classes, students create movies to show their juggling skills and gross motor skills
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Glogster where they create digital posters, and upload photos and music for reports.
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They'd throw their wallet at the problem. Those kids came in with professional-looking documents,” Robinson said, compared to plain-looking reports from students whose parents did not have as much money. Having laptops means all students can do the same quality report, regardless of their parents' income, “because they all have the same tools,” Robinson said.
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“I got used to knowing when to go on Skype: after my homework is done; when to go on Facebook: after my homework is done. As I got better, my grades started to go back up,” Trevor said.
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the laptops go home, where kids have access to all sites
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“Part of it is supervision, he said. You don't hand the keys to your car to your teenager without rules.
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Pennsylvania started a program but closed its doors when funding went away
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'I want this device to be an extension of their arm, a routine way to learn,'”
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With our ability to insulate ourselves through choosing only certain information to surround us, it reinforces the need for teachers in guiding students to more fully critique information, it's source, and bias. I disagree with it in a sense. "This transformation" CAN - not necessarily will - force us to rethink; but it can just as easily lead us to create whatever truth we have already written for ourselves by surrounding ourselves with cherry-picked information that supports our conclusions.
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"Bookmarklet apps like Instapaper, Svpply, and Readability are pointing us toward a future in which content is no longer entrenched in websites, but floats in orbit around users. This transformation of our relationship with content will force us to rethink existing reputation, distribution, and monetization models—and all for the better." — Orbital Content by Cameron Koczoon