A year in the life: Two seventh grade teachers implement one-to-one computing

Journal of Research on Technology in Education

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-377

  Garthwait, Abigail ^a   Weller, Herman G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laptops; Middle schools; One to one computing; Qualitative research; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008843086     PISSN: 15391523     EISSN: 19450818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15391523.2005.10782443     Document Type: Article

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