Ken Collura posts a useful summary of Carolyn Sommerich study of human factors (see page 8) involved in the Bishop Hartley High School (BHHS) Tablet PC program. BHHS offered the first uses of Tablet PCs in high schools.
It is important that students get on the right track from the start with computing technology, both cognitively and physically.
More than 80% of the BHHS students said that Tablet PCs made school more enjoyable, and that Tablets were replacing other tools for accoomplishing a variety of daily tasks.
For example, more students reported that using Tablets than paper-pen for taking class notes.
Eighty percent agreed that it was easier to access old lecture notes with their Tablets, easier for them to take notes during class with the Tablet, and easier to organize their notes with their Tablets.