Abstract
The PCs for Families Project is a three-year field experiment which studies how ubiquitous access to network technology in both the classroom and home impacts rural elementary students and their famines. The project sends a network computer home with participating families, trains all family members in its use, offers on-call technical support, and provides tree residential Internet services. A proxy server records home Internet usage so mat family usage patterns can be determined. This paper presents a preliminary investigation of how 24 fifth grade students utilized the Internet during their first year in the project and of the factors which influenced usage. Experiment results have implications for both research ( e.g., how student Internet usage changes over time) and design ( e.g., what features of the Internet posed challenges to the children).
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