Handheld Learning - learning with mobile and ubiquitous technologies

Disappointing reading, it's not clear what is being evaluated nor how evidence of efficacy is being measured. On the basis of the story one might assume that giving providing every student with the same quality of access (perhaps regardless of technology) had no impact on learning. Although the article says the laptops were handed out to students it's not clear if there was any attempt to adapt teaching practice to work within such an environment or provide teachers with the knowledge of how to integrate devices and 1:1 access within their teaching.

It may be that, to quote Marc Prensky's recent book, "today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach."

I'm wondering whether the statement from the article in the NY Times:



might be reconstructed?