You use! i use! we use! questioning the orthodoxy of one-to-one computing in primary schools

Journal of Research on Technology in Education

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 101-120

  Larkin, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

1:1 computing; Activity Theory; Computing; Primary education; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012489895     PISSN: 15391523     EISSN: 19450818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15391523.2011.10782581     Document Type: Article

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