AALF.org

A major topic at this year’s CoSN conference of district technology leaders, 1-to-1 computing is expected to take the K–12 world by storm. All educators—including media specialists—would do well to bone up on the topic, and to start you off, there’s the Web site of the Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation (AALF).

The nonprofit, based in Bellevue, WA, advocates the use of personal mobile computing devices in schools and, in addition to the site, sponsors related research, teacher-training programs, and public education on how providing students and teachers with their own laptop can enhance learning. On the clearinghouse site, you’ll find links to the latest news on the One Laptop Per Child project, as well as initiatives from across the country. Membership, which is free, enables access to the organization’s database of programs, where users “can see what a certain school or district is doing, then contact or get in touch with a math teacher, let’s say, or library media specialist to see how [their 1-to-1 program] is working,” says AALF program manager Matthew Hoover.