Work started at school can be continued at home and even in between. Through regular use of the technology, students develop advanced skills in using software and manipulating documents and files. These skills are more likely to be learnt in a meaningful context and retained through continual reinforcement. Student ownership of notebook computers relieves the school of the need to regularly upgrade and extend their hardware facilities. The support structures required for a notebook programme can be funded by the money saved through not purchasing rooms full of computers.
Mobile computers facilitate the delivery of cross-curriculum computing.
Technology at Trinity Trinity Grammar began a laptop programme in 1994. Technology is now incorporated into the curriculum in all subjects. An evaluation of the laptop programme at Trinity is contained in a paper prepared for Australian Council of Educational Research during the Laptops in Schools Project.