Maine High Schoolers Investigate iBook Program for Themselves

according to this article. We were the first news organization to report on the Maine iBook program which provides iBooks to all seventh and eighth graders throughout the state and the first to break the potential expansion to high school. While the expansion, like the original program raised a lot of controversy, high schoolers are taking things into their own hands by looking into the success of the 7/8 grade program.

The Mountain Time students noticed that while the teachers did not use the laptops exclusive of other methods of communicating their respective subjects, they did make use of them to make learning easier and more enjoyable for the teachers. The Apple ibooks contained a built-in graphing calculator, thus eliminating the need for students to purchase calculators, and also offered a plethora of pre-programmed multi-media software to allow art teachers to expand the scope of their courses.