Insights into students' thinking with handheld computers

Mobile Technologies and Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning: Research and Pedagogy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-98

  Ng, Wan ^a   Nicholas, Howard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-849-0.ch006     Document Type: Chapter

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