Welcome to cyberschool : education at the crossroads in the Information Age / David Trend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trend, David.

Series:

Culture and politics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer-assisted instruction.

Internet in education.

Physical Description:

v, 157 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Welcome to cyber school

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2001]

Summary:

Welcome to Cyberschool is a book about two highly charged and often emotional discussions in today's society. One concerns the optimism and promise surrounding information technologies of computers and the internet; the other involves the growing pessimism and despair about the nation's schools. These narratives of technological optimism and educational pessimism converge with increasing frequency, as school groups, community leaders, and political rivals battle each other over the best way to wire the nation's schools, computerize every classroom, and "leave no child behind". Welcome to Cyberschool is the first book-length analysis of this confluence of technology and education in the information age.

Contents:

1. Politics, Technology, and School 1

2. Utopian Promise and the Digital Divide 17

3. The Education Business 45

4. Welcome to Cyberschool 65

5. Myths of Cyberdemocracy 85

6. Reading Cyberculture 115

7. Broken Promises and Democratic Possibilities 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

074251563X

0742515648

OCLC:

46449125