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Showing 1 to 20 of 198 for “"laptop"”.
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Laptop Education: Impact on Learning and Achievement
… purpose of this study was to examine how 1:1 Laptop initiatives in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grade affected student achievement and student academic performance over the 2008–2009 school year at a selected small rural, Minnesota high school. The two variables in this study were: perceived …
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Laptop Improvisation in a Multi-Dimensional Space
… this paper defines virtuosity in the context of laptop performance, outlines a number of challenges that face laptop performers and software designers, and provides solutions that have been implemented in the author's own software environment. A summary of the argument is that by creating a …
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A story matching system for the Victorian Laptop
Thesis (S.B. and S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Wireless bridges : the laptop experience in the learning environment
The Laptop experience has changed the way people work and interact with learning space. The integration of technology in learning environments affects the usage of space and produces new learning patterns. However, new learning patterns do not come automatically with new technology. Technology, …
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The ergonomic evaluation of laptop use in university students: the development and test-retest reliability of the student laptop use and musculoskeletal posture questionnaire
Laptop computer use is associated with health problems such as musculoskeletal pain. Few methods exist to measure ergonomic exposures to laptop use. My thesis aimed to develop and evaluate the test-retest reliability of the Student Laptop Use and Musculoskeletal Posture (SLUMP) questionnaire in …
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Me and My Mac: Travel Adventures ofa Sexangenerian and Her Laptop
… be altered using existing technologies. My laptop is acknowledged in the title as “Mac” provides ease, immediacy, an organized record and a strange sense of companionship that makes my story-telling possible.</p>
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An examination of laptop-based off-task behaviours in secondary school classrooms
… school students’ off-task behaviours in laptop-based classrooms. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 224 secondary school students from four private schools in Canada (156 males, 65 females, 3 no response). The perceived advantages of laptop use in the classroom were …
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The relationship between models of student laptop computer use and teacher instructional behavior
… the relationship between four models of student laptop computer use and three components of teacher instructional behavior: planning, implementation of instruction, and evaluation of instruction. The four models of use: full access, dispersed, class set, and mixed, represented the numerous ways …
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The impact of exposure to restorative settings and laptop use on cognitive functioning
… have a common distraction – the screen on their laptop computer or mobile device. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which the benefits of green spaces on attention restoration are in any way compromised by laptop use. If a person is constantly looking at his or her laptop and …
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1:1 Laptop Experience And High-Stakes Testing: Effects On Eighth-Grade Student Achievement
Research on 1:1 laptop implementations is missing key information about student achievement on high-stakes assessment. This post hoc, quasi-experimental, quantitative study explores how 1:1 laptop access affects student achievement on the mandated eighth-grade online science assessment in five …
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Teachers’ Perceptions of One-to-One Laptop Initiative for Increased Learner Communication and Collaboration Skills
… school teachers’ perceptions of a one-to-one laptop computer implementation and its impacts on learners’ communication and collaboration skills. Mixed-methods research methodologies were adopted to collect the data that answered the research questions. Explanatory sequential design was used to …
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Supporting Comprehensive Musicianship Through Laptop Computer -Based Composing Problems in a Middle School Band Rehearsal
The results of this study demonstrate that laptop-based composition is a practical instructional approach within ensemble rehearsals and also confirms concerns about the limited transfer of performance instruction. Recommendations for implementation include the development of an organized, …
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The laptop initiative: faculty and preservice teachers' perspectives on teaching practices and the learning environment
… in which both faculty and students use their own laptop computers inside the classroom. Among the early initiatives by higher 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 …
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The Effects That A One-To-One Laptop Initiative Has On Student Academic Performance And Achievement
… of this study was to determine how a one-to-one laptop initiative in a small, rural North Dakota school effected student academic performance based on the perceptions of participating students, teachers, and parents. Existing Northwest Evaluation Association Measure of Academic Progress student …
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A Study of Information and Communication Technology Integration by Faculty Teaching in a Ubiquitous Laptop Bachelor of Education Program
… university Faculty of Education’s ubiquitous laptop program. Diffusion of innovation theory was used as a conceptual framework to examine how Faculty of Education professors perceive they are learning and integrating ICT into the preservice program despite a lack of formal ICT standards in the …
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The impact of a laptop computer assisted technology option on biology students' choice of a multi-media instructional methodology
… by anyone of three available options: (a) by a laptop computer graphics physiology instructional programme; or (b) by equivalent hand-held coloured pictures of human organs and systems; or (c) by hands-on manipulation of the articulated components of the equivalent life-size dissembled torso …
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