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Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920
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Author: Larry Cuban
List Price: $15.95
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ISBN: 080772792X
Publisher: Teachers College Pr (January, 1986)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 98,466
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Technology adoption and failure in American education.
Cuban reviews the attempts to adopt technology into American classrooms throughout the 20th century. Moving pictures, radio, TV, and other technology-based improvements were loudly acclaimed to herald a new paradigm for education. All attempts failed to make a dent in established curriculum and teaching. Cuban analyzes these failures, and applies his ideas to the current wave of technology edu-euphoria, the computer. I'm not sure his dire 1986 predictions are valid now, with the saturation of classrooms and tool-orientation that the modern computer offers. However, his book is essential reading if you want to think carefully before adopting technology in a school system. Learn from history, don't repeat it!
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