The Child And The Machine

Author : Alison Armstrong
Publisher : Beltsville, Md. : Robins Lane Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Child and the Machine written by Alison Armstrong and published by Beltsville, Md. : Robins Lane Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from hundreds of school visits, studies, and expert interviews, the authors have concluded that the rush to use computers in schools has led to one of the most expensive and least helpful revolutions in the history of American education, robbing children of education in music and the arts.

Author : Morgan G. Ames
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262537443
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charisma Machine written by Morgan G. Ames and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences. In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why—despite its failures—the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development. Announced in 2005 by MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop per Child promised to transform the lives of children across the Global South with a small, sturdy, and cheap laptop computer, powered by a hand crank. In reality, the project fell short in many ways—starting with the hand crank, which never materialized. Yet the project remained charismatic to many who were captivated by its claims of access to educational opportunities previously out of reach. Behind its promises, OLPC, like many technology projects that make similarly grand claims, had a fundamentally flawed vision of who the computer was made for and what role technology should play in learning. Drawing on fifty years of history and a seven-month study of a model OLPC project in Paraguay, Ames reveals that the laptops were not only frustrating to use, easy to break, and hard to repair, they were designed for “technically precocious boys”—idealized younger versions of the developers themselves—rather than the children who were actually using them. The Charisma Machine offers a cautionary tale about the allure of technology hype and the problems that result when utopian dreams drive technology development.

Author : Seymour Papert
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465010639
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Children's Machine written by Seymour Papert and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1994-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his classsic book, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and powerful Ideas, Seymour Papert set out a vision of how computers could change school. In The Children's Machine he now looks back over a decade during which American schools acquired more than three million computers and assesses progress and resistance to progress.

Author : Alison McNicol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908707000
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My First Sewing Machine Book written by Alison McNicol and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the parts of a sewing machine, threading the machine, safety and provides some easy projects to make.

Author : Chase Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735208701
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computer Engineering for Babies written by Chase Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to computer engineering for babies. Learn basic logic gates with hands on examples of buttons and an output LED.

Author : Alison Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552630044
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Child and the Machine written by Alison Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From educators to parents, everyone seems to be clamouring for state-of-the-art school computers in the pervasive belief that computer literacy provides children with a competitive edge in the professional and business world. But where is the evidence that computer use improves basic skills like reading, writing, and comprehension? The Child and the Machine is the first book of our time to challenge, credibly and rigorously, our obsession with a technology that, the authors contend, is wreaking havoc with our children`s lives. Drawing on hundreds of studies from North America, Europe and Japan, as well as first-hand accounts of classrooms across North America, the authors paint a sobering picture of the ineffectiveness of computers, and their negative effects on children`s educational development. Fortunately, The Child and the Machine also offers recommendations for correcting what the authors see as a potentially disastrous situation. Controversial and compelling, The Child and the Machine is bound to spark heated and prolonged debate among all those who care about education. The Child and the Machine won Book of the Year Award from Foreward Magazine (an American publishers magazine for the small presses) in the Education category. (1998)

Author : Seymour Papert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Children's Machine written by Seymour Papert and published by . This book was released on 1993-07-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papert assesses adoption of technology by schools and resistance to progress.

Author : Scott Nearing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Child and the Machine written by Scott Nearing and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Children's Bureau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.7T/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publications of the Children's Bureau written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emilie Poulsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1O/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Child's World: Morning Talks and Stories for Kindergartens, Primary Schools and Homes written by Emilie Poulsson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: