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Children and the Internet: A Zen Guide for Parents and Educators (Prentice Hall Series in Innovative Technology)

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Kehoe and Mixon provide a great resource for the parent or educator that has interest, but no exposure to the internet. This is an easy read that provides useful information for the concerned parent. Support is also offered for the technologicaly reluctant educator. This is a great "how to" for the educator that is interested in bringing tech. into the class, but is not sure where to begin. The text and information presented is best suited for someone with little to no background experience with the internet.

I just read this book after reading Zen and the Rat of the internet. There appears to be some information duplicated in both books. Also there are some far out errors, the one I noticed first was the quote by "Irish Murdoch"! I think the book could have used an editorial pass.

The really fresh and worthwhile stuff was the case studies and how to make it work in the real world. It was almost like one author did "internet" stuff and one did children stuff, and the children stuff was much more polished. I wonder if maybe the co-author Victoria Mixon did the kids stuff since it wasn't also in the Zen book. I can't find any other books by her though, I wish she would write some.

This is a good book for getting teachers (and kids!) on the internet though!