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The child and the machine : how computers put our children's education at risk /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armstrong, Alison, 1955-
Other Authors: Casement, Charles
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Beltsville, Md. : Robins Lane Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Education > Data processing.
Computer-assisted instruction.
Computers and children.
Child development.
Table of Contents:
  • Educational technology and illusions of "progress"
  • White knight or white elephant? The real costs of computerizing education
  • Disembodied brain
  • Online to success? Computer-based instruction and academic achievement
  • Young reader and the screen
  • Young writer and the screen
  • Information maze
  • Caught in the Web: children's advertising on the Internet
  • Physical effects of computer use
  • Art of learning
  • Real world of learning
  • Finding technology's place.