Oversold and underused
Subtitle: computers in the classroom
By: Larry Cuban
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780674006027
Subjects: Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Technologie éducative; Évaluation; Nouvelles technologies de l'information; Histoire; Onderwijstechnologie; Computergestuurd onderwijs; Computer-assisted instruction; Enseignement assisté par ordinateur; Educational technology; Evaluation; History
Description: "We have to keep ahead in the global economy. The best schools have the most sophisticated computers. Our kids can't be left behind. Our kids need the best. For the last twenty years, many educators, public officials, and business leaders have argued that to keep ahead, American children need to be computersavvy from early childhood onward. Using computers and the Internet in school will give kids a huge academic advantage and, in the long term, prepare them to be winners in an ever more competitive workplace. Real estate agents and parents cite the number of computers in their local schools to demonstrate the quality of their children's education. But just how much of this is true? in Oversold and Underused, one of the most respected voices in American education argues that when teachers are not trained to use new technology, or given a chance to develop creative uses for it in schools, computers end up being just souped-up typewriters. Synthesizing all the research now available, and drawing on his own 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 most classroom use is unimaginative. Even in the heartland of the new technology, classrooms run much as they did a generation ago: they just have new expensive toys in the corner."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reforming schools through technology; title: The setting; title: Cyberteaching in preschools and kindergartens; title: High-tech schools, low-tech learning; title: New technologies in old universities; title: Making sense of unexpected outcomes; title: Are computers in schools worth the investment?; title: Appendix: rationale for choices of school levels