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[1] From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG> (10)
Subject: Ubiquity 7.46

[2] From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu> (130)
Subject: TL Infobits -- November 2006

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         Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:15:46 +0000
         From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
         Subject: Ubiquity 7.46

This Week in Ubiquity:

Volume 7, Issue 46

December 5, 2006 - December 11, 2006)

UBIQUITY ALERT: REFLECTING ON THE PAST

In "FORTRAN DAYS," John Stuckey recalls his experiences as an IT
administrator at various institutions of higher learning:
Carnegie-Mellon, Northeastern, Washington & Lee, and the
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin

<http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/reflections/v7i47_fortran.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/reflections/v7i47_fortran.html

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         Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:45:54 +0000
         From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
         Subject: TL Infobits -- November 2006

TL INFOBITS November 2006 No. 5 ISSN: Not Yet=
Assigned

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the
ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information and instructional technology sources that come to
her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to
educators.

You can read this issue on the Web at
http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitnov06.php.

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The $100 Laptop Revisited
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LAPTOPS CHANGE STUDENTS' WORK HABITS

"It's not that laptops are good or bad for learning. It depends on how
they are used." A two-year study of the use of laptop computers by
students in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design "was designed
to investigate how students use laptops inside and outside the
classroom and how these practices enrich or diminish their university
experience. . . . The study examined whether laptops affect the nature
of the instructor-to-student or student-to-student interactions in and
out of the classroom; how students conduct their out-of-class work in
terms of location, time-on-task, and physical and social setting; and
the process and quality of student work."

Some of the findings of the study showed that while students with
laptops may spend more time on assignments, the time is not reflected
in higher grades. Students with laptops tended to work more from home
and were more likely to work alone.

Read more about the study on the Carnegie Mellon website:

Press release:
http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2006/november/Nov.%2020%20-%20Laptop%20Study=
.shtml

Draft report of study:
http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/LaptopStudyReport-2006.pdf

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THE $100 LAPTOP REVISITED

In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte announced that beginning in 2006 he would
build 100-200 million units of the Hundred-Dollar Laptop, or HDL
(http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitaug05.php#7) and distribute them to
children across world. According to a November 30, 2006, NEW YORK TIMES
article (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/technology/30laptop.html),
the projected distribution date is mid-2007 and the projected cost is
closer to $150 per computer. Now that the project is nearing
realization, detractors (including Intel, which is marketing its own
low-cost computer, and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system is not
part of the HDL software load) are voicing reservations
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#Criticism).