The flickering mind the false promise of technology in the classroom and how learning can be saved
The flickering mind: the false promise of technology in the classroom and how learning can be saved

"American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series of curriculum fads, empty crusades for reform, and stingy funding. Now education and political leaders have offered their biggest and most expensive promise ever - the miracle of co...

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1. Verfasser: Oppenheimer, Todd (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Random House 2003
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Schlagworte:
Onderwijsbeleid
Onderwijstechnologie
Réforme pédagogique
Technologie éducative
Educational change > United States
Educational technology > United States
Neue Medien
Unterricht
États-Unis
USA
Zusammenfassung:"American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series of curriculum fads, empty crusades for reform, and stingy funding. Now education and political leaders have offered their biggest and most expensive promise ever - the miracle of computers and the Internet - at a cost of approximately
Technology is also recasting the relationships that schools strike with the business community, changing public beliefs about the demands of tomorrow's working world, and reframing the nation's systems for researching, testing, and evaluating achievement." "All this change has led to a culture of the flickering mind, and a generation teetering between two possible futures. In one, youngsters have a chance to become confident masters of the tools of their day, to better address the problems of tomorrow. Alternatively, they can become victims of commercial novelties and narrow measures of ability, underscored by misplaced faith in standardized testing." "At this point, America's students can't even make a fair choice. They are an increasingly distracted lot. Their ability to reason, to listen, to feel empathy, is quite literally flickering. Computers and their attendant technologies did not cause all these problems, but they are quietly accelerating them
In this authoritative and impassioned account of the state of education in America, Todd Oppenheimer shows why it does not have to be this way." "Oppenheimer visited dozens of schools nationwide - public and private, urban and rural - to present the compelling tales that frame this book. He consulted with experts, read volumes of studies, and came to strong and persuasive conclusions: that the essentials of learning have been gradually forgotten and that they matter much more than the novelties of technology. He argues that every time we computerize a science class or shut down a music program to pay for new hardware, we lose sight of what our priority should be: "enlightened basics." Broad in scope and investigative in treatment, The Flickering Mind will not only contribute to a vital public conversation about what our schools can and should be - it will define the debate."--BOOK JACKET
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:XXI, 481 S.
ISBN:1400060443

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