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Conlon, Tom – Scottish Educational Review, 1997
Technology enthusiasts and politicians portray the Internet in unrealistic and misleading ways that inflate its suitability for school education. The Internet is not a library, "community," or panacea for difficult problems of teaching and learning. Determining the benefits and pitfalls for education requires extensive research and evaluation of…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Criticism, Educational Benefits, Educational Resources
National Middle School Association (NJ1), 2006
The Consortium for School Networking's report, "Hot Technologies for K-12 Schools: The 2005 Guide for Technology Decision Makers," discusses some of the technologies that are likely to be tomorrow's "must-have" tools in schools. Perhaps the greatest promise of emerging technologies is their potential to transform learning.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Multimedia Instruction, Educational Technology, Multimedia Materials
Nichols, Randall G. – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 1994
Argues that educational technology has profound and questionable effects, including teaching the superiority of technology to human communication; creation of a gap between technology haves and have nots; potential for fostering social turbulence; and emphasizing the authority of reason and a consciousness separate from the body, which encourages…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Ecology
Williams, Roy – 2000
The Diffusion of Appropriate Educational Technology in Open and Distance Learning in Developing Countries project was designed to determine awareness and use of educational technologies and communications media in developing countries, to identify factors constraining wider use of educational technologies by developing nations, and to explore…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Appropriate Technology, Attitude Change