Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds - Hardcover

Healy, Jane M.

 
9780684831367: Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds

Synopsis

First book to link children's technology use to important new findings about stages of child development and brain maturation. Through concrete examples and guidelines, Jane Healy clearly illustrates how computers can be successfully integrated into children's education - without dominating it.

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About the Author

Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., has been an educational psychologist and professional educator for more than thirty-five years, with experience as a classroom teacher, college professor, reading and learning specialist, and elementary school administrator. The author of three previous books, including Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think -- and What We Can Do About It, she is a frequent guest on NPR's Parents' Journal and a lecturer and consultant to public and private schools and parent groups. She is a parent and grandparent, and lives with her husband in Vail, Colorado.

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9780684855394: Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds -- and What We Can Do About It

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ISBN 10:  0684855399 ISBN 13:  9780684855394
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1999
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