You can find some statistics on ownership of laptops, PDAs, etc. in a recent Educause study which looks at IT use in the classroom. You can see the options for downloading the report here: http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ERS0506 Data is fom 2005, and they have just finished a 2006 study but that's not available yet. /Caroline ---- Original message ----
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:46:07 -0700 From: Bonnie Nardi <nardi@ics.uci.edu> Subject: [Air-l] laptops in classrooms To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Hi All,
Does anyone know the research on students using laptops in college classrooms? Some of my undergrad students found in a survey that 50% of the students in the sample said they would not use a laptop in class if the Internet was not available. 50% said they only brought laptops to class for entertainment purposes. (Not sure how the individuals overlaps in each case, but have asked the students to do that analysis).
I'd like to follow up and find out about any larger surveys/qualitative studies on this topic.
Thanks.
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Bonnie
Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/
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