Failure To Connect: How Computers
Affect Our Children’s Minds – for Better and Worse
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998
Review by Patricia Ploetz, Instructional Technology and Multimedia Educator/Coordinator, UW-Stevens Point
Ploetz describes Healy's Failure to Connect as an insightful, highly readable critique of the "technology craze" mindset held by some educators. Healy cites convincing evidence that too much computer exposure for very young children may actually be harmful to their development. Healy promotes a measured, "do it right when the time is right" attitude towards the integration of technology into children's education. (Jan. 2001)
Building Learning Communities in
Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom
by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999
Review by M. Kayt Sunwood, UW-Superior, and Jane Henderson, UW-Stout
This review marks the first in TTT's proposed series of reviews of recent publications in educational technology. Included is a link to a helpful Web companion to the book created by Henderson and others. (May 2000)