FAILURE TO CONNECT: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds -- and What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy
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First book to link children's technology use to important new findings about stages of child development and brain maturation. Through concrete examples and guidelines, Jane Healy clearly illustrates how computers can be successfully integrated into children's education - without dominating it.Tags
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Healy challenges the use of computers with children, particularly children under 7years old. She discusses software, the use of and type that schools and parents buy for their children. She makes valid points about how computers are not being well used by teachers and parents with children and offers suggestions for how schools should integrate computers into the classroom. This is a challenging and thought provoking read. It will make you want to think about what you are doing with computers.
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Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., is a lecturer, consultant, educational psychologist, and the author of three previous books about how children do (and don't) learn, Your Child's Growing Mind, Endangered Minds, and Failure to Connect. She is a parent and grandparent, and lives with her husband in Vail, Colorado.
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- Nonfiction, Technology
- DDC/MDS
- 371.334 — Society, government, & culture Education Schools and their activities; special education Methods of instruction and study Teaching aids, equipment, materials
- LCC
- QA76.9 .C659 .H43 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science
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- English, Swedish
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