This book takes a serious historical and international look at the "digital pencil" movement to equip every student with a computing device with wireless connection. Using an ecological perspective as an overarching framework, and drawing on their own studies and available literature that illuminate the issues related to one-to-one computing, the a

Selected Contents: 1 The Digital Pencil: An Introduction 2 A Historical View of Technology in Schools 3 Arguments for One-to-One Computing 4 Conditions for Laptop Uses in Schools 5 How Students Use Laptop Computers 6 Laptops vs. Handhelds 7 Parents and One-to-One Computing 8 Evaluating and Studying One-to-One Computing 9 Final Thoughts on Laptops for Children