[Random-bits] REBECCA S. WEINER: Do Students Need a Computer Time Out?

[James Love]

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/27/technology/27EDUCATION.html


September 27, 2000

         EDUCATION

         Do Students Need a Computer Time Out? Teachers
         Question Technology Report

         By REBECCA S. WEINER

             aying new technology can make more
             students eager to learn, elementary school
             teachers using the new tools in the
         classroom are questioning a recent study that
         calls for young children to take a "time-out"
         from computers. 

         The new study underwritten by the Alliance for
         Childhood, argues that more research needs to
         be conducted into the impact computers could
         have on the developing minds and bodies of
         young children. 

         "The reason we're calling for a time-out is we
         think we need to get more information before we
         put a computer in front of each kid," said Edward
         Miller, co-author of the study -- "Fools Gold: A
         Critical Look at Computers in Childhood" --
         and an education policy analyst based in
         Cambridge, Mass. "We don't think computers
         are evil." 

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