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Wireless laptops in the classroom (and the Sesame Street syndrome)

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 49 , Issue 9 (September 2006) table of contents
Privacy and security in highly dynamic systems

COLUMN: Viewpoint table of contents

Pages: 25 - 27

Year of Publication: 2006

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Dennis Adams

C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, Houston, TX

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Give instructors the option of turning off wireless Web access to accommodate their students' learning styles, in some cases to save them from themselves.

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