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37Impact of One-to-one Student Laptop Programs on Teaching and LearningOne-to-one student laptop programs allow students to use computers acrosscurricular areas while providing them an electronic repository and readily availableaccess to online resources. Students in these programs are said to experience learning thatis more engrossing, powerful, and complex. As such, the introduction of ubiquitouscomputing in a school environment invariably impacts students’ educational experiences.This section of the review investigates those effects through an exploration of theavailable one-to-one student laptop program literature guided by the following question:What are the impacts of one-to-one student laptop programs on teaching and learning?Effects on TeachersThe most widely researched impact of one-to-one student laptop programs wasfound in the effects on teachers. Dwyer, Ringstaff, and Sandholtz (1991) claimed thatteachers in a ubiquitous computing environment experienced “change as an evolutionaryprocess with stages we label: Entry, Adoption, Adaptation, Appropriation, andEvolution” (p. 47). Teachers entered this evolutionary process at different stages andprogressed at different speeds based on their prior experience with technology educationand their existing computing skills (Burns & Polman, 2006). Researchers claimed thatregardless of evolutionary stage, involvement in a one-to-one student laptop program hadconsiderable effects on teachers’ attitudes and instructional practices.