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" Never mind the laptops : "
Bob Johnstone
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BL
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705283
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b527472
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Johnstone, Bob
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Never mind the laptops : : kids, computers, and the transformation of learning /\ Bob Johnstone
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: iUniverse, Inc.,, ©2003
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viii, 351 pages ;; 23 cm
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0595288421 (pbk.)
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: 0595658970 (cloth)
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: 9780595288427 (pbk.)
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: 9780595658978 (cloth)
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| Abstract
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Bob Johnstone provides an answer to the conundrum of computers in the classroom in Never mind the laptops. His conclusion: we owe it to our kids to educate them in the medium of their time. In this book he tells the extraordinary story of the world's first laptop school. How daring educators at an independent girls' school in Melbourne, Australia, empowered their students by making laptops mandatory. And how they solved all the obstacles to laptop learning, including teacher training. Their example spread to thousands of other schools worldwide. Especially in America, where it inspired the largest educational technology initiative in US history -- the state of Maine issuing laptops to every seventh-grader in its public school system. Never mind the laptops is based on hundreds of interviews. In it, you'll meet the visionary leaders, inspirational principals, heroic teachers, and their endlessly-surprising students who showed what computers in the classroom are really for.--From Publisher's description
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Education-- Data processing
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Laptop computers
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371.334
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LB1028.43.J64 2003
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