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>Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:58:23 -0700
>From: Michael Bush <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #5352.2 Sharing Resources - Computers in Classrooms (!)m
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I have not read Stoll's new book _ High-Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't
Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian_,
although I guess that I will now.  I started his previous piece _Silicon
Snake Oil_, but got disgusted with his one-sided presentation of his
pre-conceived notions.  Ed's posting prompted me to look for references to
Stoll's latest work and I came up with
http://www.familyhaven.com/parenting/hightechheretic.html.  Reading this
interview leads me to conclude that this effort is like the previous one
that I mentioned.

Sure Stoll is bright, and, based on his words I read in that interview, he
also asks some interesting questions, but his thought is more sensationalism
than substance.  He takes an extreme position, sprinkles it with some points
for reflection and valid concerns, and then over-extrapolates in the best
form worthy of Luddites of any era.  Stoll's counterparts of the 15th or
16th centuries questioned the value of widely available books and even
Socrates doubted the intellectual value of the invention of writing.  Memory
reigned supreme, and its loss was feared.  Indeed it did suffer as writing
and books spread among humanity, so I suppose, according to Stoll's parallel
reasoning, that we would have been better off to have kept books out of
schools as well.

Cheers,

Mike
Michael Bush
Associate Professor of French and
Instructional Psychology and Technology
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http://moliere.byu.edu/digital/

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