The Internet Playground: Children's Access, Entertainment, and Mis-Education
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Summary
The Internet Playground addresses this pedagogical Catch-22 with a four-year ethnographic study conducted via after-school classes at two Southern California public elementary schools and concludes that schools with strained budgets might often do better to spend resources on teachers instead of computing technology.
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- article
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- 2005-12-01
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Keywords
The Internet, Entertainment, Sociology, Pornography, Literacy
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