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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Newly published, peer-reviewed research out of Michigan State University and the University of California, Irvine suggests that one-to-one laptop programs improve student academic achievement in K-12 classrooms. Learning in one-to-one laptop environments: A meta-analysis and research synthesis. Warschauer, M., H., & Chang, C. (in

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What Happened to the ‘$100 Laptop’?

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Back in 2005, one of the biggest stories in tech was a project by a group of MIT professors to build a $100 laptop and give them to children in schools around the world. At the time, a typical laptop cost well over $1,000. That never quite came to fruition, but almost 3 million is still a lot of laptops out there.

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What Happens When Low-Income College Students Borrow Free Laptops?

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The post ( perhaps one like this ) described how alienating and awkward it can feel for a student to show up to class without a laptop. With professors saying ‘Everyone take out your laptop,’ it was not an inclusive environment. Most of the laptops the university recommends for students cost upwards of $1,000.

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How K–12 Schools Are Bringing Classroom Technology to Outdoor Learning

EdTech Magazine

If you stumble across a group of K–12 school students outside using laptops to track soil levels and search for monarch eggs or observing birdhouses with video cameras, you may have discovered an outdoor learning space.

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K–12 Schools Seek to Connect 12 Million Students Without Home Broadband Access

EdTech Magazine

As part of the shift to remote learning in 2020, many schools provided devices such as laptops and tablets to students for the purpose of attending school via the internet.

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DCPS Builds Consensus, Community and Ongoing Innovation into Its ELi Tech Plan

EdTech Magazine

Most of the district’s schools had one laptop for every three students, but the devices had to stay in school; no one could take them home. Mayor Muriel Bowser to a group of concerned parents, agreed. It wasn’t ideal for modern-day learning, acknowledged Karen Cole, deputy chief of academic and creative empowerment for DCPS.

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Move Over, Laptop Ban. This Professor Teaches a 5-Hour Tech-Less Reading Class.

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David Peña-Guzman starts off his Friday class at San Francisco State University like any other professor might: students file in and pull out their note-taking materials, and he opens his laptop to begin lecture. Some faculty members point to research showing how laptops can be more of a distraction than a learning enabler.

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