December 9, 2005

Face-Off: Technology as Teacher?

Carol Twigg, president of the National Center for Academic Transformation, and Cliff Stoll, an astronomer, a secondary-school teacher, and author of High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian, debated whether technology in the classroom improves student learning. Following is an excerpt of their introductory remarks and their answers to questions from the session's moderator, Jeffrey R. Young, a senior editor of The

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