A dissident voice. (Technology).Alison Armstrong, who is one of the authors of a book challenging the value of computers in early education, has called for a moratorium A suspension of activity or an authorized period of delay or waiting. A moratorium is sometimes agreed upon by the interested parties, or it may be authorized or imposed by operation of law. on buying computers for primary schools in her native Canada. The Child and the Machine: How computers put our children's education at risk was first published in Canada in 1998 and has now been published in Australia. Speaking in Sydney, Ms Armstrong said `There is no proof that computers improve education for very young children'. On the contrary, she said, there was strong reason to believe that, under some circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or , computers had a deleterious deleterious adj. harmful. effect. She pointed to research that suggests computers `can be a distraction Distraction Divination (See OMEN.) Porlock a “person from Porlock” interrupted Coleridge while he was recollecting the dream on which he based “Kubla Khan”. [Br. Lit.: Poems of Coleridge in Magill IV, 756] in the classroom and [can] trivialise education'. One of her biggest concerns was the financial cost of technology in primary-school classrooms, as it could be at the expense of other learning areas (Age, 9/5/01, p.6; Australian, 9/5/01, p.5). |
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