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Watch IT : the risks and promises of information technologies for education

Author: Nicholas C Burbules; Thomas A Callister
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Nicholas C Burbules; Thomas A Callister
ISBN: 0813390834 9780813390833 0813390826 9780813390826
OCLC Number: 42649614
Description: xiii, 188 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Risky Promises and Promising Risks of New Information Technologies for Education --
"Information" Technologies --
Information "Technologies" --
A Post-Technocratic Perspective on Technology --
The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown --
Dilemmas of Access and Credibility: Access for Whom? Access to What? --
Issues of Access --
Technical Access --
Skills, Attitudes, and Dispositions of Access --
Practical Access --
Issues of Form and Content as Issues of Access --
Issues of Credibility --
Assessing Credibility --
Gaining Credibility --
Dilemmas of Access --
Hypertext: Knowledge at the Crossroads --
What Is Hypertext? --
Hypertext and Thought --
Writing and Reading Hypertext --
Authorship and Design --
Active Reading --
Paths, Trails, and Learning --
Educational Dilemmas --
Critically Reading the Internet --
The Critical User --
Judging Credibility --
Beyond Credibility --
Critical Judgment as a Social Practice --
Hyperreading --
Links and Hyperreading --
Different Types of Links --
Hyperreading as Critical Reading --
Misinformation, Malinformation, Messed-Up Information, and Mostly Useless Information: Is Censorship the Best Response? --
Troublesome Content: The 4 M's --
Misinformation --
Malinformation --
Messed-Up Information --
Mostly Useless Information --
What to Do About the 4 M's --
Five Responses --
Censorship --
Filters --
Partitions --
Labeling --
Critical Readers --
Surveillance and Privacy: Can Technology Protect What Technology Takes Away? --
The Shifting Meanings of "Privacy" --
Privacy and Young People.
Responsibility: Nicholas C. Burbules, Thomas A. Callister, Jr.
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