Education/Technology/Power: Educational Computing As a Social Practice (SUNY Series, Frontiers in Education)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Interest in educational computing has grown explosively in recent years. School districts are rushing to invest in new technologies, hoping to "equip" students with skills said to be needed in today's world of intense economic competition. Is this enormous investment in computing technology a good idea? Reaching a useful answer requires a more finely grained question: investment in what kind of educational computing? a good idea for whom? under what conditions? We need to know who is affected, how, and by what specific practices . . . but that sort of analysis is generally no...
ISBN(s)
0791437981, 9780791437988
