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Volume 44 ,  Issue 6  (June 2001) table of contents
Pages: 15 - 20  
Year of Publication: 2001
ISSN:0001-0782
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Becker, H. Who's wired and who's not, 2000; www.gse.uci.edu/doehome/DeptInfo/ Faculty/Becker/packard/saveall.html#top.
 
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Becker, H.J., Ravitz, J.L., and Wong,Y. Teacher and teacher-directed student use of computers and software. Report #3, Teaching, Learning, and Computing: 1998 National Survey. Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, University of California, Irvine, Calif. (Sept. 1999).
 
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Cordes, C., Miller, E. Fool's Gold: A critical look at computers in childhood. Alliance For Childhood, 1999; www.allianceforchildhood. net/.
 
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Healy, J. Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds and What We Do About It. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1998.
 
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Marx, R.W., Blumnefled P., Krajick, J., Fishman, B., Soloway, E., Geier, R., and Tal, T. Inquiry-based science in the middle grades: Assessment of student learning in the context of systemic reform. University of Michigan Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools. In preparation, 2000.
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"Cynthia S. Fish : Reviewer"

The authors make an elegant, if finally unconvincing argument in favor of the adoption of handhelds as an alternative/substitute/addition to the K-12 computer arsenal. It is elegant in as much as their basic argument is sound—desktops are ex  more...