Computers Meet Classroom: Classroom Wins
@article{Cuban1993ComputersMC,
title={Computers Meet Classroom: Classroom Wins},
author={Larry Cuban},
journal={Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education},
year={1993},
volume={95},
pages={185 - 210}
}The question often generates swift objections. What about the $19.6 million Quince Orchard High School in Montgomery County (Maryland), where there are 288 computers for 1,100 students? Or the Juan Linn School in Victoria (Texas), where a computerized integrated learning system (ILS) provides instruction to 500 students and records daily their work? What about the thousands of elementary and secondary school teachers who have students work together on computers to write, tally figures, draw…
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