ABSTRACT

This book takes a serious historical and international look at the "digital pencil" movement to equip every student with a computing device with wireless connection. Using an ecological perspective as an overarching framework, and drawing on their own studies and available literature that illuminate the issues related to one-to-one computing, the a

chapter 1|18 pages

A historical view of technology in schools

chapter 2|28 pages

Arguments for one-to-one computing

chapter 3|30 pages

Conditions for laptop use in schools

chapter 4|24 pages

4How students use laptop computers

chapter 5|22 pages

Laptops versus handhelds

chapter 6|26 pages

Parents and one-to-one computing

chapter 8|22 pages

Final thoughts on laptops for children