
Laptops and Literacy
Learning in the Wireless Classroom
Mark Warschauer(Author)
Teachers' College Press
Will be published approx. on 25. September 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-8077-4726-1 (ISBN)
Description
The number of laptop computers in U.S. schools is growing at a rapid rate. This timely book analyzes the types of learning that take place in one-to-one wireless classrooms where all students use laptop computers. With a particular focus on students' literacy practices, the text covers reading and writing, information use, and multimedia development. Featuring critical analysis and practical examples, this book is essential reading for everyone concerned with making effective use of new technology to meet the educational needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. This book: looks at the literacy challenges of the 21st century and examines whether and how laptop use contributes to meeting them; draws on extensive research in schools that have implemented one-to-one computing and provides details from those that are successfully using technology to enhance learning; uses rich examples from urban, suburban, and rural areas, with children in regular classrooms as well as in ESL, gifted, and special education programs; and, provides details from schools that are successfully using technology to enhance learning.
Reviews / Votes
A must read. Warschauer's is the most intellectually serious discussion in print of the current movement towards laptops in education. - Seymour Papert, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ""A lot has been written about computers in schools, but Warschauer's Laptops and Literacy is now a definitive source. His excellent book, though partly a cautionary tale, is yet full of a rare commodity these days, optimism about the possibilities of our schools."" - James Paul Gee, Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading, University of WisconsinMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
284 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-4726-1 (9780807747261)
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Person
Mark Warschauer is Associate Professor in the Department of Education and the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He is also Associate Director for Research of the Ada Byron Research Center for Diversity in Computing and Information Technology