ABSTRACT
This chapter examines students, on the next step of the school policy staircase, the silenced policy voices, share with students their policy enactment as they tell us their stories of the distribution of laptops and their literacy and numeracy practices. The 'digital revolution' is introduced through an overview of the literature on the so-called 'digital natives'. It hears from students how their families responded to the distribution of laptops and about their own initial and subsequent response to having a personal laptop. They take us into their classrooms and it sees the way laptops both engage and distract them and how their teachers have responded to this technological intrusion. Students are the 'expert witnesses', 'the treasure in our very own backyards' of what occurs at the classroom level of policy enactment. They are more than passive observers, bystanders of their teachers' policy enactment, because they too enact policy through their interactions with other students and with their teachers.
