The Flickering Mind Free

Author: Todd Oppenheimer
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1400060443

The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved

The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works. Download The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. br>
American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series of curriculum fads, empty crusades for reform, and stingy funding. Now education and political leaders have offered their biggest and most expensive promise ever-the miracle of computers and the Internet-at a cost of approximately $70 billion just during the decade of the 1990s. Computer technology has become so prevalent that it is transforming nearly every corner of the academic world, from our efforts to close the gap between Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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