Maine District Undergoing Technological Transformation

The Weekly Observer (ME) (1/5, Balentine, Wood) reports, "New technology has stepped front and center in the minds of educators aiming to take advantage of the new digital revolution to further students' grasp of everything from history to home economics." According to the Observer, schools in the Sanford, ME area "are utilizing laptops, netbooks and e-readers to break down the boundaries of education, further students' breadth and depth of knowledge and maybe even put a little more fun into the process of learning key essentials of a 21st-century education. These efforts are a glimpse of education's future, which state educators believe will be free of textbooks and where laptops, e-readers and tablet computers like Apple's iPad render traditional textbooks obsolete."