As technology use in education increases, interest in and implementations of ubiquitous computing initiatives have also increased. One-toone laptop initiatives have sprung up throughout North America at the school, district, and state or province levels. This paper is an attempt to synthesize available studies of one-to-one initiatives at the K-12 level using both quantitative and narrative techniques. Meta-analysis yielded a small positive average effect size that seems to be due largely to the impact of laptops on students’ writing. Technology in