Laptop computers for students and teachers. News from the Center for Children and Technology and the Center for Technology in Education , p.1-6. The following is excerpted with permission of the authors. We found that the laptops change classroom circumstances, making it easier for teachers to engage students in substantive, collaborative, project-based work. Laptops also made planning and group communication easier for the teachers we observed.
Laptops are portable.
Probably, someone writes it down and re-keys it into a computer at some other time in some other part of the school. With laptops, student research can happen anywhere in the field, at home, in the library and data analysis, notetaking, or journal writing can get done on the spot, preserving first impressions and providing immediate feedback. Classroom dynamics changed when each student had their own laptop every day. Computer based work - such as writing and revising, printing, and sharing or collecting data became one of many activities happening in the classroom. Laptops also fit smoothly into group work for example, students collaborating on a written piece or sharing data can pass one or several computers among themselves, contributing to multiple aspects of a project rather than working on isolated units.