Learning With Laptops

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Author(s): Ian Kennedy (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)and Lorna Uden (Staffordshire University, UK)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 9
Source title: Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence A. Tomei (Robert Morris University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch088

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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Rogoff (1994) believes that technology can act as a catalyst influencing change from a traditional classroom to an environment of community of learners. One way to successfully integrate technology in schools is to use a constructivist approach. Here the environment provides facilities for students to learn by doing, to work with others, and to have authentic experiences, motivating learning and making it relevant. Technology provides cognitive tools for students as they make sense of the information gathered, allowing experts, teachers, and students to communicate their thoughts and interests in the subject matter and simulating real-life situations and problems. Laptops can hinder or help children. The software has to be well-designed for the purpose f “teaching the child to learn”.

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