Educause Center for Applied Research reported last week that a majority of college students believe that having technology in the classroom improves their learning. "Perhaps the most visible of these changes is the continuing increase in the proportion of students with laptops, which has grown to 73.7 percent of respondents (while an almost-total 98.4 percent own a computer of some kind). More surprisingly, over half of laptop owners don’t bring them to class at all, with about a quarter carrying them to lectures at least once a week." (Insider Higher Ed, 2007)

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