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Stephen Downes

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The governor of Pennsylvania is announcing "the start of a three-year, $200 million program to furnish high school classrooms with laptop computers and wireless Internet access." This is good, but there's something weird about the idea of "a laptop computer on every desk" - shouldn't laptops be associated with individual students? Computing is personal. Via ASCD SmartBrief.

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