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Over more than thirty years, particular governments, individuals and organisations have actively promoted computers as learning technologies. Enormous amounts of money and time have been spent promoting specific kinds of educational computing, and distinct policies by which these might be implemented.The view that computers can enhance student learning has gained broad acceptance. When schools promote the use in their classrooms of the latest computing technology - now tablets - they signal technological sophistication and the academic success which computers, allied with learning, are assumed to bring. The association of computers with success in school, however, is neither a natural nor an inevitable phenomenon. The view that all school children will benefit equally from access to computers overlooks inequities associated with differing patterns of use. How the Computer Went to School gives an account of the origins and development of the computer industry in the United States and shows how these influenced educational computing in both that country and Australia. It explores government policy visions which prioritise the economic benefits of educational computing for the nation and asks questions about the proper role of the computer in education and society more generally.

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Title How the Computer Went to School: Australian Government Policies for Computers in Schools, 1983-2013
Author Denise Beale
Binding Paperback
Pages 240
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Monash University Publishing
Publication date 2014
ISBN 9781922235169 / 1922235164
Themes
- Cultural Region: Australian
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Ethnic Orientation: Australian
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Education
- Topical: Inspiration
Category Computers - General Information
Library of Congress subjects Education - Data processing, Education and state - Australia
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014466640
Dewey Decimal Code 379.94

About the author

Denise Beale taught English and languages in Victorian schools for many years and has worked as a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. She won the Mollie Holman Award for Doctoral Excellence in 2010.

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