Maine Students Hit the IBooks
Katie Dean,
Wired News,
Jan 10, 2002
Starting in the fall of 2002, every grade 7 student in Vermont will use a portable wireless Laptop supplied by Apple and purchased under a $30 million state grant (the Maine school and library network is kicking in an additional $9 million). That adds up to 36,000 laptops and while some people are critical, calling the iBook's glorified CD players, the educational potential is large. Depends on how they use them, though, and I hope the Maine school system is allowing wide latitude for innovayion (and not merely using them to replace pens and paper for students to take lecture notes).
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