Failure to connect : how computers affect our children's minds--for better and worse / Jane M. Healy...
Failure to connect : how computers affect our children's minds--for better and worse / Jane M. Healy...
Failure to connect : how computers affect our children's minds--for better and worse / Jane M. Healy.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998.
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N371.334/35
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English
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350 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. Digital Dreams Meet Reality. 1. Blundering Into the Future: Hype and Hope. 2. Computing Basics for School and Home. 3. The Bottom Line -- Pt. 2. Digital Childhood. 4. Computers and Our Children's Health. 5. The Growing Brain Meets Artificial Intelligence. 6. Emotional, Social, and Personal As...
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
In this comprehensive, practical, and unsettling look at computers in children's lives, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., questions whether computers are really helping or harming children's development. Once a bedazzled enthusiast of educational computing but now a troubled skeptic, Dr. Healy examines the advantages and drawbacks of computer use for kids at h...
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Failure to connect : how computers affect our children's minds--for better and worse / Jane M. Healy.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-336) and index.
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c1998.
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N371.334/35
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74VM0zP3RdrO
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0684855399 :
9780684831367
0684831368
9780684855394(pbk.) :
0684855399(pbk.) :
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371.334
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991001728499702626
