Using computers in education
- Educating by computer
- Transforming schools through information technology
- Promoting online technologies in learning
- Developing computer assisted learning
- Developing educational computing
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In 1994, more than 50% of teachers in the USA had PC's at home, although only 38% of middle school and 44% of high school classrooms were similarly equipped. During the 1993-94 school year more than US$958 million was spent on some 639,000 new PC's for schools.
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Research shows that far better than sticking kids in front of computers is putting them with caring adults, engaging them in creative play, outdoor experiences with nature, the arts, and hands-on learning of all kinds.
Walk into any public library these days and chances are that you will be confronted by a phalanx of computers. Children are immediately drawn to them, as we were drawn to television when we were kids. It is clear to us now that television has done more damage than good to our society. Unless we act now, computers may do the same to our children.
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