This article reports on preliminary findings from an ongoing study of teaching and learning in a ubiquitous computing classroom. The research employed mixed methods and multiple measures to document changes in teaching and learning that result when teachers and students have access to a variety of digital devices wherever and whenever they need…

Discusses the social and organizational impacts of the introduction of computing into academic and administrative aspects of schools. Leavitt's sociotechnical systems model is used to explore the interaction in schools of technology, structure, people, and tasks. The issue of control as a mediating influence is highlighted. (15 references) (LRW)

Maccia's epistemology of intelligent natural systems implies that computer systems must develop qualitative intelligence before knowledge representation and natural language understanding can be achieved. Emotion and sensation--capabilities which computers do not currently possess are vital to the growth of the mind (Stanley I. Greenspan).…