The Maine Learning with Laptop Studies project (MLLS) is a small group of educators, educational technologists, and scholars producing research, documentation, evaluation, and advocacy of 1-to-1 learning with technology initiatives.MLLS has four primary goals:
- telling the story of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative;
- providing high quality program evaluation services to learning with laptop initiatives;
- working with other educators to provide evidence-based advocacy for 1-to-1 laptop initiatives;
- and conducting educational technology research.
Telling the Story of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative
The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), a project of the Maine Department of Education, provides schools sufficient laptop computers and wireless networks for each student and teacher. The initiative is firmly focused on improving learning for students and provides teachers with extensive support and professional development.MLLS tells the MLTI story through scholarly documentation, published papers, and links to other useful reports and resources.
1-to-1 Learning with Laptop Initiative Advocacy
Educators and school leaders all over the country are having to explain, justify, and defend their learning with laptop programs to school boards, community members, and state legislatures, even when the schools are finding success with their programs. What can educators and school leaders do to become and stay prepared to defend the programs they believe in?
Evaluation Services for 1-to-1 Learning with Laptop Initaitves
Comprehensive evaluation services based on a model which grew from from a team who understands the realities of the classroom and the school and who have been involved with enough educational technology initiatives to know what questions to ask and how to find the answers.
MLLS Research Briefs/Technical Papers
Papers and reports from MLLS research.
The Maine Learning with Laptops Studies
The Maine Learning with Laptops Studies are designed in direct response to the growing needs and challenges of the significant school investments in educational technology, the demand for accountability that investment requires, the potential that technology provides to helping every child succeed in school, and the increased need for high quality teachers working to accomplish that goal.More globally, the MLLS will contribute to the body of knowledge on educational technology and its role in helping students to learn important content. Maine, is the first state to adopt technology use statewide, and others are following, and the effects of such implementations with educators having varying levels of interest, experience, and expertise with technology are unknown. These studies are already illuminating to jurisdictions hoping to implement similar initiatives.
The Maine Learning with Laptops Studies project will promote the effective use of learning technologies, and encourage successful learning for every child by conducting high quality research on integrating technology into teaching and learning with a special focus on student engagement. These studies will provide high quality findings to policymakers, educators, researchers, teacher trainers, decision-makers, and scholars.
MLLS is a collaborative project of the Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning (McMEL) at the University of Maine at Farmington and the Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning (IITTL) at the University of North Texas.
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Last updated:
April 2, 2005