The Maine Learning Technology Initiative is an initiative that gives Apple MacBooks (formerly iBook G4's And G3's) to all of the 7th and 8th graders attending public schools in Maine. These laptops are fully equipped with high tech and well used applications for educational use. The students use the laptops for homework, classwork, projects etc. According to Andrew Trotter, Maine was the first state in the country to provide laptops to middle school students statewide. When it began in 2002, it was one of the first such initiatives anywhere in the world to equip all students with a laptop.
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