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Laptops and Literacy: Learning in the Wireless Classroom: Teachers College Press.

TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS Laptops and Literacy: Learning in the Wireless Classroom. www.tcpress.com, $27.95

This book analyzes the types of learning that take place in one-to-one wireless classrooms, where all students use laptop computers. While focusing on students' literacy practices, it covers reading and writing, information use, multimedia development and also examines how laptops help meet the literacy challenges of the 21st century. It also provides research about schools that have implemented one-to-one computing, offering details from those that are successfully using technology to enhance learning.
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Author:Patton, Carol
Publication:District Administration
Date:Jan 1, 2007
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