Stoll, Clifford,

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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Computer-assisted instruction.
Computers and civilization.
Internet in education.

LB1028.S875.H544 1999