February 22, 2002
The Educational Benefits of Laptops
To the Editor:
The decision by Duke University not to require all freshmen to have laptop computers raises some interesting issues ("Duke U. Decides Against Requiring Freshmen to Own Laptops," January 11). ...
Significant planning must go into the use of laptops as learning tools and not simply as word processors. Our laptop requirement came only after several years of pilot projects that explored laptops' role in pedagogy. The information obtained from these and other pilot
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