Study+Skills+and+Work+Habits

toc =Study Skills and work habits in 1 to 1 laptop environments.=

What it takes to be a successful student and how 1-to-1 laptop programs influence the students development.

 * 1. Engagement** - 3 Types of individual needs that are key for engagement found in laptop schools.
 * Relatedness – the computer screens lets students share more, due to the higher access to multimodality teacher organized more project work, computer assisted collaboration
 * Autonomy –
 * Competence-students being good with multimedia projects. Students helping each other.


 * 2. Study Habits** - Laptops are a positive tool for helping students organize their work.
 * Keep track of their work.
 * Students take notes more frequently.
 * Creating computer based flash cards, ppt slides to help review terms and concepts.
 * Submission of work electronically from home to teachers.
 * Being able to work on one portable computer provided a greater sense of independent academic identity. Not so in technology-intense educational environments. (laptops on carts)
 * 3. Inventive Thinking** - Posited as one of the main cornerstones of 21st Century skills and analyzed as including the following components:
 * Adaptability and managing complexity
 * Self direction
 * Curiosity
 * Creativity
 * Risk Taking
 * Higher-Order thinking and sound reasoning