learning process of today's student? To what extent or degree are we as teachers responsible, or

should be responsible, for the 'proper' integration of technology into our classrooms? Research

and inquiry into this realm have proposed both positive and negative aspects to computer versus

traditional learning. There are, without question, cultural and educational benefits and dangers of

technology and computer usage for students. As educators, we have a significant role to play in

ensuring equal access to technology, and in realizing its full educational and creative potential.

Public debate about the impact of new digital technologies have been marked by a kind of

schizophrenia which often accompanies the advent of new cultural forms. On the one hand, these

new forms are seen to have enormous positive potential, particularly for learning; on the other,

they are frequently seen to be harmful to those who are regarded as particularly vulnerable. In

both cases, it is children - or perhaps more accurately, the idea of childhood - which is the vehicle

for many of these aspirations and concerns.

cost-effective, enabling 30% more learning in 40% less time at 30% less cost (Tapscott, 1996).)

greater control in order to protect children from such apparently corrupting influences.

distinction between the two. Some of the anxieties that are regularly rehearsed in relation to

these changes as good or bad, they are seen to follow inexorably from the implementation or

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