|
High-Tech
Kids: Trailblazers or Guinea Pigs?
Some
educators warn that too much computer use might do
more harm than good - especially for very young students
By Joan Westreich
Resources
and Further Information:
Milken
Exchange on Education Technology, 1250 Fourth St., Santa Monica,
CA 90401-1353; tel: 310-998-2800; fax: 310-998-2828. www.mff.org
Educational
Testing Service, Rosedale Rd., Princeton, NJ 08541; tel: 609-921-9000;
fax: 609-734-5410; e-mail: etsinfo@ets.org.
www.ets.org
Educational
Technology Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Nichols
House, Cambridge, MA 02138; tel: 617-495-9373; fax: 617-9268.
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~etc
The Media
Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bldg. E-15, 77
Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139-4307; tel: 617-253-0300;
fax: 617-258-6264. www.media.mit.edu
Perseus
Project, Classics Department, Tufts University, Eaton Hall,
Medford, MA 02155; tel: 617-627-3213. www.perseus.tufts.edu
Archaeology’s
Dig, Archaeological Institute of America, 135 William St.,
New York, NY 10038; tel: 212-732-5154; fax: 212-732-5707.
www.dig.archaeology.org
C. Norris,
J. Smolka, and E. Soloway. "Convergent Analysis: A Method
for Extracting the Value from Research Studies on Technology
in Education." Paper presented at the Secretary’s
Conference on Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education,
Washington, DC, July 1999. www.ed.gov/Technology/TechConf/1999/whitepapers/paper2.html
J. Schacter.
"The Impact of Education Technology on Student Achievement:
What the Most Current Research Has to Say." Santa Monica,
CA: Milken Exchange on Education Technology, June 1999. www.mff.org/edtech/publication.taf?_function=detail&Content
_uid1=161
H. Wenglinsky.
"Does it Compute? The Relationship between Educational
Technology and Student Achievement in Mathematics." Princeton,
NJ: Educational Testing Service, Policy Information Center,
September 1998. www.ets.org/research/pic/dic/preack.html
J.M. Healy.
How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds——For
Better and Worse. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
<<
Back to Table of Contents
|
