General bibliography for Elixir discussion

The following is a brief sampling of publications that (in varying degrees) take a generally critical or skeptical view of the value of computers in education. Please feel free to send in suggestions for additional (or contrasting) entries.


Birkerts, S. [1994] The Gutenberg Elegies. New York: Fawcett Columbine.

Bromley, H. and Apple, M. (eds.) [1998] Education/Technology/Power. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Cuban, L. [1986] Teachers and Machines. New York: Teachers College Press.

Fischer, G. [1999] "Lifelong Learning: Changing Mindsets", Proceedings of ICCE 99, 7th International Conference on Computers in Education on "New Human Abilities for the Networked Society", November 4-7, Chiba, Japan.

Fischer, G. and Scharff, E. [1998]. "Learning Technologies in Support of Self-Directed Learning", Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 98 (4).

Healy, J. [1998] Failure to Connect. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Oppenheimer, T. [1997] "The Computer Delusion". The Atlantic Monthly, July 1997.

Postman, N. [1992] Technopoly. New York: Vintage Books.

Resnick, M. [1998]. Technologies for Lifelong Kindergarten. Educational Technology Research and Development, vol. 46, no. 4.

Resnick, M., Bruckman, A., and Martin, F. [1996]. Pianos Not Stereos: Creating Computational Construction Kits. Interactions, vol. 3, no. 6 (September/October 1996).

Resnick, M., Rusk, N., and Cooke, S. [1998]. The Computer Clubhouse: Technological Fluency in the Inner City. In Schon, D., Sanyal, B., and Mitchell, W. (eds.), High Technology and Low-Income Communities, pp. 266-286. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Roszak, T. [1994] The Cult of Information (2nd edition). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Schofield, J. [1995] Computers and Classroom Culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Sloan, D. (ed.) [1985] The Computer in Education: a Critical Perspective. New York: Teachers College Press.

Stoll, C. [1995] Silicon Snake Oil. New York: Anchor Books.

Stoll, C. [1999] High-Tech Heretic. New York: Doubleday.


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