Technology's promises and dangers in a psychological and educational context
Theory Into PracticePublished 1 January 1998
Gavriel Salomon
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In the age of the mind-as-a-computer, whether as tool for information processing, for symbol crunching, or as neural-like parallel processing machine, the way people learn and think and the information technologies the authors develop to make that learning and think more parallelism remains unchanged.
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(1998). Technology's promises and dangers in a psychological and educational context. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 37, Technology and the Culture of Classrooms, pp. 4-10.
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