| Description |
350 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
A Touchstone book |
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Touchstone book.
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. Digital Dreams Meet Reality. 1. Blundering Into the Future: Hype and Hope. 2. Computing Basics for School and Home. 3. The Bottom Line -- Pt. 2. Digital Childhood. 4. Computers and Our Children's Health. 5. The Growing Brain Meets Artificial Intelligence. 6. Emotional, Social, and Personal Aspects of Children's Computer Use -- Pt. 3. Doing It Right When the Time Is Right. 7. Cybertots: Technology and the Preschool Child. 8. Learning With Computers in Elementary, Middle, and High School. 9. Computing the Future |
| Summary |
In this comprehensive, practical, and unsettling look at computers in children's lives, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., questions whether computers are really helping or harming children's development. Once a bedazzled enthusiast of educational computing but now a troubled skeptic, Dr. Healy examines the advantages and drawbacks of computer use for kids at home and school, exploring its effects on children's health, creativity, brain development, and social and emotional growth. Based on years of research into learning and hundreds of hours of interviews and observations with school administrators, teachers, parents, and students, Failure to Connect is a timely and eye-opening examination of the central questions we must confront as technology increasingly influences the way we educate our children |
| Notes |
"First Touchstone Edition 1999"--T.p. verso |
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Ä Touchstone Book" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-336) and index |
| Subject |
Computer-assisted instruction.
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Computers and children.
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| LC no. |
98024971 |
| ISBN |
0684831368 |
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0684855399 (paperback) |
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