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Will Technology Really Change Education?: From Blackboard to Webreviewed by Terence Ahern - 2001 Title: Will Technology Really Change Education?: From Blackboard to Web Author(s): Todd W. Kent and Robert McNergney Publisher: Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks ISBN: 9780803966567, Pages: 80, Year: 1998 Search for book at Amazon.com Teachers are caught on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand
parents and school administrators, given all of the media hype,
believe that technology will improve the way teachers teach and
students learn. Consequently, public officials are demanding that
they integrate computer and related technologies into the
classroom. On the other hand, there is a vocal and growing dissent
that questions the efficacy of computers and their related
technology in the classroom. The dissenters question the ability of
technology to deliver the quality and affordable instruction that
has been promised. For example on a recent ABC Nightline entitled
"The $50 Billion Gamble: Will computers improve public school
education" it was established that in a school that had
dramatically improved student performance, the 20 million dollars
worth of technology had little to do with the school's improvement.
Rather it was an old fashioned commitment to hiring, developing and
providing necessary resources for teachers that was the source of
the student success. The reality is that... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Terence Ahern
Texas Tech University E-mail Author TERENCE AHERN is an associate professor of instructional technology in the College of Education at Texas Tech University. Publications include “Authoring Lessons for the Internet: Factors in Design” (with K. Burleson
and T. Martindale), in the Instructional Design issue of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE) (1997).
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