Apple films Documentary on Technology in Education

Apple has chosen four schools across the nation to be the subjects in a film documentary on technology in education. Last week, Apple filmed at Skowhegan Area Middle School (right) in Skowhegan, Maine, the home town of the late Sen. Margaret Chase Smith.

Since the teachers at Skowhegan Area Middle School have long been at the forefront of integrating technology in the classroom and the State of Maine has chosen Apple iBooks and MacBooks as the hardware for the now famous Maine Learning Technology Initiative, it is only fitting that Apple chose that school to be one of four for the documentary project.

Apple's film crew toured the school. Then, they filmed two teachers and two students while they worked at school, at home, and at different places in the community.

According to Macs Only!'s sources,

"The Skowhegan Area Middle School has a long tradition of involving students in community-based history projects. In recent years they have worked in partnership with the Maine Historical Society and their local historical society as students learned more about local history and they've created web pages and movies to share what they've learned. This year they are entering a new phase of their work which will involve the Skowhegan Area High School."

Through the Department of Education's Maine Learning Technology Initiative, the state bought over 30,000 iBooks for all of the state's seventh and eighth graders and their teachers plus support and AirPort networking from Apple as first reported on Macs Only! four years ago. This year the initiative was extended to all teachers and administrators in the state's high schools, again as first reported by Macs Only! [Dana Baggett & Bill Fox--Image courtesy of MLTI]