GEN: Computers are NOT the universal panacea

[Alice Yucht <aliceinfo@EXCITE.COM>]

Important article from Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle:

Computer illogic:  Despite great promise, technology is dumbing down the classroom

available at  http://tinyurl.com/x4yf




Alice Yucht, lifelong Teacher-Librarian
aka *Alice in InfoLand,* somewhere in central New Jersey
Information Skills/Library Management consultant, writer, and presenter
Author: FLIP it! info-skills strategy (Linworth, 1997)

email: aliceinfo at excite.com
website: http://www.aliceinfo.org

"We may be service-oriented, but we don't have to be servants."

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