Computers and Education
Computers and Education | Computers Cannot Replace Teachers
Vivienne Collinson is a professor at Michigan State University and the author of Reaching Students: Teachers’ Ways of Knowing.
Summary: Computers can be effective tools for helping students learn academic subjects, but young people will always need human teachers to provide moral guidance and foster intellectual growth and social development. Computers provide students with information, but only teachers can teach children to think critically, discriminate among sources of information, and be creative. Computers certainly cannot help students with the...
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Table of Contents
- Schools Should Adopt Computer-Assisted Education
- Schools Should Not Adopt Computer-Assisted Education
- Computer-Assisted Education Can Enhance Learning
- Computer-Assisted Education May Not Enhance Learning
- Computers Can Make Students More Interested in Learning
- Computer-Assisted Education Can Undermine Serious Study
- Computer-Assisted Education Benefits Young Children
- Computer-Assisted Education Does Not Benefit Young Children
- Computer Literacy Is Vital to Students’ Future Success
- Traditional Literacy Is More Important than Computer Literacy to Students’ Future Success
- Computer-Assisted Education Could Radically Alter the Role of Teachers
- Computers Cannot Replace Teachers
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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