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Watch It: The Risks and Promises of Information Technologies for Educationreviewed by Janet Ward Schofield - 2002 Title: Watch It: The Risks and Promises of Information Technologies for Education Author(s): Nicholas C. Burbules & Thomas A. Callister
Publisher: Westview Press, Boulder, CO ISBN: 0813390826, Pages: 240, Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com Watch It: The Risks and Promises of Information Technologies
for Education differs from much of the available literature on
computers in schools in a number of ways. First, it neither
embraces a utopian vision of computers as likely to revolutionize
schools and solve long-standing educational problems nor joins the
smaller but nonetheless vocal chorus of those who see the rapid
movement of computers into schools as a waste of resources or, even
worse, as an active threat to important educational processes and
values. Second, unlike much other work in this area, it pays little
attention to the issue of whether and how the use of various kinds
of computer applications changes student outcomes or pedagogical
practices. Third, again unlike a plethora of recent books, it is
not a "how to" manual for educators interested in improving their
computer skills or in finding practical advice about topics such as
how to best integrate the use of computers into their curriculum or
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- Janet Schofield
University of Pittsburgh E-mail Author Professor Schofield’s research focuses on illuminating the ways in which technology use in schools both influences and is influenced by social and organizational processes. The author of Computers and Classroom Culture, she is currently completing a book, Bringing the Internet to School: Lessons from an Urban District, co-authored with Ann Davidson.
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