Laptops can obviously help students learn. They can retrieve information from various networks and sources at the click of a mouse button. However, I think usage should be constrained and regulated, particularly during school. For example, having a laptop during class may not be conducive to quality learning, particularly when teachers share little anecdotes or nuances that aren't covered in textbooks or study-guides. And if they are available during class, then networks should be filtered so that they can't go to createdebate.com and talk about laptops when they should be learning about the Saschenhausen appeal of 1324 and its implications.

Having a laptop is more likely to cause problems as you can access all sorts of sites and services that you are not allowed to.

Students can greatly benefit from using a laptop to learn. In School, researching on a computer is more fun and appealing than copying down notes from the whiteboard, so it means more students are likely to become engaged in the lesson. If it can only be used for word-processing, so be it, but it can still be beneficial. Typing is a important skill in today's world. As long as basic restrictions are put in place at school, such as no games, chatrooms, etc, then there's no reason why a laptop computer can't help students learn. I'm even typing this argument on a laptop right now.

Laptops indubitably help students learn. With a laptop they are able to learn how to do essentially anything with the power of the internet.

Learn? Like who uses a computer to learn when you have 1,251 friends on fb?

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Laptops provide not just a information gathering device, or a tool find models of various types of learning, but are collaborative tool that allow students to learn from each other and celebrate their skills.

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yep they do help kids learn a lot of things

they help u learn how to have a conversation on the net

laptops help people but someone who do not agreed with it is not responsble human.... i want to show to people thats laptops is important to teengers likes me.... we are the teenagers so we must have a fun to open the internet to. not just for learn also for study.... dont always say we use the laptops on a wrong way!!!!

I think a laptop will make a student learn because there is a plethora of knowledge at his/her fingertips.