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Wireless laptops in the classroom (and the Sesame Street syndrome)

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Give instructors the option of turning off wireless Web access to accommodate their students' learning styles, in some cases to save them from themselves.

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                cover image Communications of the ACM
                Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 9
                Privacy and security in highly dynamic systems
                September 2006
                100 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/1151030
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