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Why screens in schools—from film screenings to instructional television to personal computers—did not bring about the educational revolution promised by reformers.

Long before Chromebook giveaways and remote learning, screen media technologies were enthusiastically promoted by American education reformers. Again and again, as schools deployed film screenings, television programs, and computer games, screen-based learning was touted as a cure for all educational ills. But the transformation promised by advocates for screens in schools never happened. In this book, Victoria Cain chronicles important episodes in the history of educational technology, as reformers, technocrats, public television producers, and computer scientists tried to harness the power of screen-based media to shape successive generations of students. 
            Cain describes how, beginning in the 1930s, champions of educat

Schools and Screens A Watchful History

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      Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
      Publication Date: 19/10/2021
      ISBN13: 9780262045230, 978-0262045230
      ISBN10: 0262045230
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Why screens in schools—from film screenings to instructional television to personal computers—did not bring about the educational revolution promised by reformers.

      Long before Chromebook giveaways and remote learning, screen media technologies were enthusiastically promoted by American education reformers. Again and again, as schools deployed film screenings, television programs, and computer games, screen-based learning was touted as a cure for all educational ills. But the transformation promised by advocates for screens in schools never happened. In this book, Victoria Cain chronicles important episodes in the history of educational technology, as reformers, technocrats, public television producers, and computer scientists tried to harness the power of screen-based media to shape successive generations of students. 
                  Cain describes how, beginning in the 1930s, champions of educat

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