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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Technology adoption and failure in American education.,
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This review is from: Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920 (Paperback)
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!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent history of technology in 20th century eduction,
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This review is from: Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920 (Paperback)
Excellent history of technology in 20th century eduction (until 1984). Radio, TV, film...all with promises, trajectories, and pitfalls similar(though not the same) to computers and the Internet. Cuban's description and analysis of the reactions of teachers, schools, and the educational establishment to technology are credible and insightful.
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Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920 by Larry Cuban (Paperback - January 1, 1986)
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