The Child and the Machine: How Computers Put Our Children's Education at Risk

by Alison Armstrong; Charles Casement

• ISBN13: 9780876592106
• ISBN10: 0876592108
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Robins Lane Press

Summary

Argues that the rush to use computers in schools has led to one of the most expensive and least helpful revolutions in the history of education.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Educational Technology and Illusions of ``Progress''	1	(18)
White Knight or White Elephant? The Real Costs of Computerizing Education	19	(18)
The Disembodied Brain	37	(24)
Online to Success? Computer-Based Instruction and Academic Achievement	61	(16)
The Young Reader and the Screen	77	(18)
The Young Writer and the Screen	95	(16)
The Information Maze	111	(16)
Caught in the Web: Children's Advertising on the Internet	127	(16)
The Physical Effects of Computer Use	143	(18)
The Art of Learning	161	(18)
The Real World of Learning	179	(16)
Finding Technology's Place	195	(10)
Notes	205	(18)
Bibliography	223	(20)
Index	243