Title :
Lessening the digital divide with laptop computers
Author :
Greenberg, Valerie Kesner
Author_Institution :
Univ. of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX, USA
Abstract :
Recent studies (Feb 2000) by the Kaiser foundation, Harvard´s Kennedy School of Government and National Public Radio reveal that Americans have fallen in love with the Internet. The purpose of the study is to determine how the introduction of readily accessible computer usage affects the attitudes and effectiveness of education for minority students considered part of the digital divide
Keywords :
educational computing; laptop computers; psychology; social aspects of automation; teaching; Americans; Internet; digital divide; education; laptop computers; minority students; readily accessible computer usage; user attitudes; Aging; Demography; Economic forecasting; Educational technology; Frequency conversion; Government; Portable computers; Psychology; Telecommunication services; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2000. IWALT 2000. Proceedings. International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Palmerston North
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0653-4
DOI :
10.1109/IWALT.2000.890634
