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The Internet Goes to School; Educators Debate Value of Surfing (1996) (nytimes.com)
3 points by djoldman 23 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


> ...The skeptics say they believe that a decade of computer use in schools has not resulted in any marked improvement in children's learning basic skills.

> Instead, they say, the Internet will promote a cut-and-paste style of learning, with students parroting trivial bites of information found on the computer screen instead of developing the critical judgment and analysis engendered by culling through books.


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