- Taschenbuch: 352 Seiten
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster; Auflage: Touchstone. (15. Oktober 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0684855399
- ISBN-13: 978-0684855394
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,4 x 13,9 x 2,1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (12 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 977.531 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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This important book is a welcome addition to the growing (and long overdue) debate about how much of a good thing it is to mix computers and children.
Healy is a professional educator of wide experience, and a recovering techno-fundamentalist. She is scrupulously fair about the evidence presented in various studies on the ways computers help or hinder learning, and quick to offer positive anecdotes where there are positive ones to be had. (She freely notes, for example, what a miracle computers have been for some handicapped children.) But her conclusions about the routine use of computer technology in the classroom are overwhelmingly--and persuasively--negative.
A major theme of Failure to Connect is the federal government's culpable idiocy (not her term, but she implies as much) in jumping uncritically, to the tune of $4 billion a year, on the "computer in every classroom" bandwagon. As she shows, there is scant evidence that computers teach basic skills any better than traditional methods, or that children who don't have computers are somehow "left behind." Conversely, there is abundant evidence that an uncritical infatuation with computers as an educational panacea is replacing skill building and learning with formless play while forcing art and music lessons, and in some cases math textbooks, off many school budgets.
Healy writes lucidly, neatly balancing her discussion of the issues with practical, undogmatic advice for parents and educators. A sober and sobering read about a crucial issue. --Richard Farr -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Longtime educator and administrator Healy is actually a fan of computers. But she is dismayed that so many people in and out of education hold the almost religious conviction that computers in classrooms equal better learning experiences. Making children computer literate, she argues, in no way guarantees they will develop the cognitive skills they need. In fact, she presents much evidence that computers can help children disconnect intellectually, emotionally, and socially. When examining educational software, for example, Healy finds many problems. Among them: far too many programs are set up to allow the children themselves to select the tasks to be done and the levels of difficulty. She shows how businesses can deceptively package advertisements as computer education, too. But she also provides much practical advice, including methods for choosing good software and numerous activities to foster critical thinking. A must-read for educators, parents, and home-schoolers. Brian McCombie
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Although Healy seems to be in support of technology in education, she chooses to present only the worst case scenarios in her book and takes a very pessimistic view of educational technology. She visits several schools, both in low and high economic areas, and seems to find all of the worst examples of computers being used with students. For example, she observes a group of students using 2 computers to do writing, and tells only of those who appear to be wasting time, not of those who are being successful. She criticizes the activity and calls it a waste of time. At the same time, she quotes teachers saying things like "Isn't it great what they can do with the computer?" which then makes the teacher look like she doesn't know what is going on. It is true that often times parents and teachers don't use computers to their fullest potential, but spending an entire book pointing out all of the faults is not the way to change people's ways. The problem essentially falls on the software manufacturers who see a profitable market in "edutainment" software. To Healy's credit, she gives several different suggestions for parents when they are buying software for their children at home and suggests ways to use the techonolgy as a tool, not as a substitute for the television. Instead of pointing out everything that is wrong with technology in schools, Healy and others like her would be better served looking for what is right and working to make these good practices available to those who need it most.
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As a parent and public librarian interested in child development I often recommend this book to the parents of young children. The frequent comments from parents, teachers, professors, children and industry experts that appear throughout each chapter add to the evidence and personal examples of the dangers of over-exposure to computers for pre-schoolers and young children.
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when go on line sometiea amazon in on front page,,, go to tv mode. ,then go back to webb different,, it evev knows wheh it is not connected / as it has been altered / on screen advisor states that "phone line las been interrupted ans causes me to connect again, and I dont haxe to be a computer wiz to tell that it is correcting/altering the selected programs and///most important the way of dialing in Pino
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Why You Should Read This Breakthrough book
This book was badly needed...Our parents, and schools, have been stumbling for years through this "digital jungle," trying to figure out what they're doing--lost that is. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. September 1999 veröffentlicht
An Accessible Account of the Case Against Technology
This is an excellent book, if for no other reason than that Healy is willing to put forward arguments (albeit imperfect ones) on the other side of the computers-in-education... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. September 1999 von David Skrbina (daves@e-mail.com)
Well researched but end data not well interpreted.
As an info tech student I was very interested in this subject. As I read this book I found myself repeatedly unhappy with the conclusions being drawn from the data presented. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Parents, Pick up and read this one!
I was fortunate to have sat in on a lecture by Jane M. Healy, PH.D. Having an extensive background in childrens education, and also her PHD (maybe "A reader from USA"... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
It's What You Don't Say
Every enlightened parent and teacher knows that seeing and reading about seashells will not substitute for actually taking a child to the beach. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Most information on computers for learning in one great book
FAILURE TO CONNECT explores learning with computers within the foundations of learning. Most innovators including computer innovators have forgotten the role of linear subject... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Blame it on the computer?
This is a very disappointing book for anyone that wants to know more about how computers affect children (which the book claims to do - and the reason why I bought it). Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Failure to Properly Review Research (a Better Title)
A careful reading of Jane Healy's Failure to Connect: How Computer's Affect Our Children's Minds-- for Better and Worse reveals many faults in logic, and we can only guess that her... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. März 1999 veröffentlicht
This is an excellent book.
I highly recommend this title to any parent, teacher or librarian that is concerned with the education of young children. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
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