Computers and Society | Computers Cannot Replace Good Teachers

Remember filmstrips? I used to look forward to Wednesday afternoons when our fifth-grade teacher would dim the lights, pull down the screen and advance the projector to an electronic beep. All the pupils loved filmstrips. For the next hour, we didn’t have to think.

Filmstrips and Learning
Teachers liked them, too. With arms folded in the back of the class, they didn’t have to teach. The principal approved. Filmstrips were proof that Public School 61 in Buffalo was at the cutting edge of educational technology. Parents demanded filmstrips, the modern, multimedia...

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