Oversold and underused : computers in the classroom / Larry
Cuban.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts : 2001
250 p. : il.
ISBN 0674011090
Materias:
Biblioteca Sbc Investigación 681.3:37 CUB
Impelled by
a demand for increasing American strength in the new global economy, many educators,
public officials, business leaders, and parents argue that school computers and
Internet access will improve academic learning and prepare students for an
information-based workplace. But just how valid is this argument? In
"Oversold and Underused," one of the most respected voices in
American education argues that when teachers are not given a say in how the
technology might reshape schools, computers are merely souped-up typewriters
and classrooms continue to run much as they did a generation ago. In his
studies of early childhood, high school, and university classrooms in Silicon
Valley, Larry Cuban found that students and teachers use the new technologies
far less in the classroom than they do at home, and that teachers who use
computers for instruction do so infrequently and unimaginatively.
