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More than 80 percent of instructors say the laptops help them make lessons more personal to students, make it easier for students to study problems from the real world and to dig deeper into certain topics, according to a survey by the Maine Education Policy Research Institute, established by the Maine legislature in 1995.
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Many teachers who were surveyed also said that students using laptops are becoming better at combining information from multiple sources and expressing their thoughts
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But whether its program can measure up to the federal government’s key yardstick — improvement in standardized test scores — is another question.
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Students can access the most current information on their laptops, opposed to books, which may quickly become outdated
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Employers are more supportive in certain industries because they might care less what somebody’s test score was than do they have the innovative abilities necessary to succeed?"
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Employers are more supportive in certain industries because they might care less what somebody’s test score was than do they have the innovative abilities necessary to succeed?"
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How to offer every child the same opportunity at a quality education
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Still, the laptop program has faced setbacks. Maine wanted to expand its laptop program to all high schools four years ago, but state budget cuts have prevented that
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28 Mar 12
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The feedback from inside the classrooms has been pretty positive
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Many teachers who were surveyed also said that students using laptops are becoming better at combining information from multiple sources and expressing their thoughts. Students in the program report that they understand the material better.
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its students are learning “21st-century skills” such as collaborating, collecting pertinent information on the Internet — and spawning original ideas.
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Maine’s laptop program has had other positive effects. From the beginning of the program, class attendance rose and detentions dropped.
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significantly higher on the writing part
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The laptops might help breach the economic barrier to school success. Silvernail found that on statewide writing exams, economically disadvantaged students using laptops did outperform advantaged students who didn’t use their computers.
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04 Mar 09
Sam RussellState still needs to prove that computers help students learn better.
“What you can do on laptops isn’t measured on current standardized tests,” said Mark Warschauer, an education professor at the University of California in Irvine and author of “Laptops and Literacy: Learning in the Wireless Classroom.”
Maine’s laptop program has had other positive effects. From the beginning of the program, class attendance rose and detentions dropped.
Statewide test scores haven’t changed much. But a study led by University of Southern Maine professor David Silvernail found that the average 8th-grader using a laptop did score significantly higher on the writing part of a statewide exam called the Maine Educational Assessment.
The laptops might help breach the economic barrier to school success. Silvernail found that on statewide writing exams, economically disadvantaged students using laptops did outperform advantaged students who didn’t use their computers.
“There’s no question that there’s enough good results to say that we need to keep going,” said Manchester. -
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14 Jan 09
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In the United States, Maine has led the way with its laptop program, which has made students more enthusiastic in the classroom, but not necessarily resulted in better test scores.
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More than 80 percent of instructors say the laptops help them make lessons more personal to students, make it easier for students to study problems from the real world and to dig deeper into certain topics,
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Many teachers who were surveyed also said that students using laptops are becoming better at combining information from multiple sources and expressing their thoughts. Students in the program report that they understand the material better.
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“What you can do on laptops isn’t measured on current standardized tests,” said
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teachers not knowing how to teach with laptops
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Maine’s laptop program has had other positive effects. From the beginning of the program, class attendance rose and detentions dropped.
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Three-quarters of Maine’s middle school students say they like school more since getting their own laptops,
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ut a study led by University of Southern Maine professor David Silvernail found that the average 8th-grader using a laptop did score significantly higher on the writing part of a statewide exam
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Bette Manchester, the first director of Maine’s laptop program, said the state also wants to use its laptop program to solve an age-old educational problem: How to offer every child the same opportunity at a quality education.
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05 Aug 08
Gary McFarlaneIt always seems to come back to some standardized test. Gary
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