#books #computing | Oversold and underused : computers in the classroom

Oversold and underused : computers in the classroom / Larry Cuban.

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts : 2001

250 p. : il.

ISBN 0674011090

Materias:

Tecnología educativa.

Enseñanza asistida por ordenador.

Biblioteca Sbc Investigación 681.3:37 CUB

OPAC Millennium

http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1577751~S1*spi

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.