Armstrong, Alison, 1955-,

The child and the machine : how computers put our children's education at risk / [print] Alison Armstrong and Charles Casement. - Beltsville, Maryland : Robins Lane Press, (c)2000. - xii, 254 pages ; 23 cm.



Educational technology and illusions of "progress" -- White knight or white elephant? The real costs of computerizing education -- Disembodied brain -- Online to success? Computer-based instruction and academic achievement -- Young reader and the screen -- Young writer and the screen -- Information maze -- Caught in the Web: children's advertising on the Internet -- Physical effects of computer use -- Art of learning -- Real world of learning -- Finding technology's place.



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Education--Data processing.
Computer-assisted instruction.
Computers and children.

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