High-tech heretic : why computers don't belong in the classroom and other reflections by a computer contrarian / [print]
Clifford Stoll.
- first edition.
- New York : Doubleday, (c)1999.
- xv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Why computers don't belong in the classroom -- A literate Luddite? -- Makes learning fun -- The hidden price of computers -- Loony for laptops -- Multimedia comics -- CRTs for tots -- A question of balance -- Calculating against calculators -- Education by e-mail -- Cyberschool -- The computer contrarian -- Arrogance of the techies -- Software guinea pigs -- The tyranny of the ugly computer -- "Information is power" -- Help! I'm stuck at a help desk! -- The connected library -- Planned obsolescence -- New uses for your old computer -- The plague of PowerPoint -- Junk food and the Internet: the economics of information -- Rule number two -- Isolated by the Internet -- All truth.
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