CHAPTER 36: Computers in Classrooms: Essential Learning Tool … or Program for Disaster?
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Published:2014
Alison Dickie, 2014. "Computers in Classrooms: Essential Learning Tool … or Program for Disaster?", Selected Writings from the Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association: Celebrating 50 Years (1962–2012) of Delta-K, Egan J. Chernoff, Gladys Sterenberg
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Jennifer was only seven when she started pestering her parents for a computer of her own. Her grade 2 teacher had told her to ask her parents for one because all but three of the other children in her class were using home computers to complete their school projects. Jennifer’s teacher believed that it was important for students to become comfortable with this technology and the sooner the better.
Teachers like Jennifer’s are one reason sales of computers and software are booming. Between 1991 and 1992, sales of educational software jumped 50 percent. In the past three years, British Columbia schools spent $35 million on computers, and Ontario schools spent $140 million.
