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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"Laptops"”.
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Architecture for Cyborgs : laptops and spatial use at MIT
… with a focus on the Sloan School of Management. Laptops will only enable spatial flexibility if the nature of one's work ("life pattern") affords it (Norman, 1999), "mobility" or "flexibility" is perceived to be advantageous, and there are suitable behavior settings (Barker, 1989; Schoggen, 1989) …
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Successful Implementation of Laptops in the Classroom: An Implementation Plan
<p>The purpose of this project is to develop an implementation plan for schools that are incorporating laptop computers into the classroom. Research was conducted through an extensive literature review; a survey of school policies, programs and interviews with three educators at school sites with …
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Mobility, *Being, Global Network: A Technography of Laptops and Cellphones
Mobility refers to the movement of actors and actants in ever-shifting arrays that comprise actor-networks; movement in physical terms, but also conceptual movements such as transience in identity. Being refers to a Heideggerian state of 'pure being', moments of revelation in which the truth about …
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Adaptivescreen: an adaptive news browser for laptops and mobile devices
… AdaptiveScreen and the prototype system on both laptops and movable devices, we can conclude that AdaptiveScreen successfully leverages the effectiveness of Interface Card Model (ICM) proposed before and overcomes the weakness of prototype system. In the end, we hope the new system can …
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8th Grade Students’ Perceptions of 1:1 Laptops in Algebra 1
… data. Findings revealed that students found the laptops beneficial, students perceived the laptops to be a result of the 21st-century initiatives in schools, and students perceived and reported that the laptops helped them learn mathematics. Findings also revealed that students found the laptops …
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Middle School Students' Perceptions of the Teaching and Learning Initiative: Laptops for Every Student
Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS) deployed laptop computers to over 23,000 middle and high school students in the division. Access to the computer network was through a wireless system that provided convenient and unlimited classroom arrangements without the restrictions required with cabled …
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A Volume Rendering Engine for Desktops, Laptops, Mobile Devices and Immersive Virtual Reality Systems using GPU-Based Volume Raycasting
<p>Volume rendering is the process of visualizing characteristics and properties of three-dimensional (3D) volume data as a 3D object. The most extensive use of volume rendering takes place within the medical field. Physicians are using a combination of medical imaging technologies and volume …
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Quantitative characterization of transboundary flows of used electronics : a case study of the United States
… United States in 2010. Approximately 22 million laptops were generated and 12 million used laptops were collected. Uncertainty parameters were modeled for each estimate. Additional data sources, such as owner surveys, are necessary to create quality estimates of other types of used electronics …
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Fine-grained Energy and Thermal Management using Real-time Power Sensors
… of battery powered devices such as smartphones, laptops and
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Design and Performance Analysis of Wireless Networks
… scaling experiment conducted on a network of laptops with wireless modems.
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Dependence of typing speed and accuracy on device type and familiarity
… present in modem lives through its uses in laptops, phones, tablets, and other consumer electronics. Current computers encourage high typing speeds by implementing mistake corrections such as "backspace" or "delete" keys, functions that were previously done by cross-outs or complete rewrites …
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The laptop initiative: faculty and preservice teachers' perspectives on teaching practices and the learning environment
… education institutions to require the use of laptops by faculty and students in classrooms is the Laptop Initiative for Future Educators (LIFE) in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. This study sought to understand faculty and preservice teachers’ perceptions of the …
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The impact of exposure to restorative settings and laptop use on cognitive functioning
… the green view condition who did not use their laptops scored significantly higher on tests of attentional functioning than their peers in the other three conditions. There were no significant differences in attentional functioning after the break among participants in the green view-laptop …
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Promoting sustainable development Goal 4 through ICT integration into geography advanced subsidiary curriculum in selected secondary schools, Ohangwena region
… These ICT tools included computers, projectors, laptops, and multimedia projectors. All schools selected have dedicated computer laboratories. However, some school laboratories were not operational and accessible to AS learners. Some schools allowed their learners to bring their own devices, such …
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Individual Differences and Group Effects for Keyboard and Stylus in Autobiographical Compositions and Summaries of Read Source Material for Students in Grades 4 to 9
… especially the need to go beyond using laptops only for accommodations to use of laptops such as IPads integrated in explicit writing instruction in the classroom.
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Examining Shared Understanding in Partially Distributed Conceptual Design Teams
… devices (e.g., smart phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops)–not to mention the growing corporate use of fully immersive telepresence technologies–means that a variety of combinations of communication devices can be used. To date, however, the majority of CMC studies have focused on the …
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One-to-one technology and mathematics achievement for eighth grade girls and boys in the state of Maine.
… state-wide group of students to have one-to-one laptops in Maine. Calculator usage was found to be positively associated with mathematics achievement for both girls (partial correlation coefficient of .189 (p = .011)) and for boys (partial correlation coefficient of .193 (p = .010)) even after …
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Evaluating Sixth Graders' Self-Efficacy in Response to the Use of Educational Technology
… via Survey Monkey on their classroom laptops. At a predetermined date, time, and location, teachers of the participating students met with the researcher in focus groups. Before the meeting date and time, the focus group agenda was emailed to the teachers for their perusal. The results …
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