Contradictory news coverage about ed-tech study (fwd)

[Lorraine Pozzi]

I'm wondering how many people on this list remember Steve Hodas?
He had a peculiar e-mail address that had horsehorselionlion or
something in it.  I post this to the list because Steve is a person
who not only contributed to SCN (and to Project Compute), but
also has used his experiences within SCN to consider problems in
a wider context.  Given the recent raging debates internally over
the present and future roles of SCNA within the community, I
thought Steve's comments might be interesting, both to those
who knew him in the early days of SCN and to those who are
struggling to understand (and in some cases redefine) the
purpose of the present organization.

Lorraine
femme2 at scn.org


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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 23:18:16 EDT
From: Bonnie Bracey <BBracey at aol.com>
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Subject: Re: Contradictory news coverage about ed-tech study

Dave always gives wings to my thoughts but the problems are well enumerated in
Steve Hodas's work.

 <A HREF="http://www.review.com/steven/techrefusal/techrefusef.html">Hodas:
Technology Refusal and the Organizational Culture of Schools</A>
All the members of the discussion would do well to read Hodas's remarks and
those of Larry Cuban.
 <A HREF="http://www.technos.net/journal/volume7/2cuban.htm">Computers Make
Kids Smarter—Right?</A>
What do we want to use computers for in our classrooms? Researchers cannot
answer questions of purpose; policymakers, practitioners, and parents must and
should consider the questions for themselves and determine their aims.

<snip>

 <A HREF="http://www.technos.net/journal/volume4/2Radke.htm">Click here: The
Internet May Be the Safest Haven</A> The issues are so many what is a teacher
to do?

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