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Monday, December 01, 2008
The Maine Event - Tom McHale, Technology & Learning
At Mt. Abram Regional High School in Strong, Maine, the one-to-one program is student centered—and student initiated. Since 2004, Mt. Abram High School students and teachers have participated in a one-to-one laptop program—one of many offered in the state of Maine. In 2003 Principal Jeanne Tucker's student advisory group wanted to look into laptops as their service-learning project. At the time, the state was in the beginning of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, which issued laptops to all 36,000 teachers and students in grades 7–8. Two of the students in Tucker's group had siblings in this statewide program and wanted to know why they also couldn't get laptops. The students wrote a letter to the school board and invited them on a trip to the only high school in the state that had a laptop program—Piscataquis High School in Guilford. The students, School Board Chairman Mike Pond, Technology Director Angel Allen, and Principal Tucker visited the school and were impressed enough with the Piscataquis program to pursue one-to-one at Mt. Abram.
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