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This 3 page paper discusses the digital revolution as it pertains to education. Neil Postman's Technopoly and Faigley's Beyond Imagination reviewed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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communications age going to the library to do research is falling by the wayside, and is instead being replaced by the ability and access to a personal home computer and
the internet. Two authors speak about the good, bad and the ugly in reference to education and the new technological age. Lester Faigley in his Beyond Imagination addresses the new
student in the new era, as Neil Postman argues, in his book, Technopoly, that there exists an improbable world where this issue is concerned. Lester Faigley states that the
internet, while originally being touted as the single most explosive learning tool ever, has not really lived up to its hype. And, in fact, Faigley states, with the advent of
cable television in the sixties and seventies, the same sorts of things were being said. Issues revolving around isolationism, increased educational content, and active community involvement as the result of
cable television, has proven to have just the opposite effect(Faigley, 1999 134). Faigley goes on to point out that not all of the information which one receives via the Internet
is reliable and that if the Internet were going to be used to educate children, that critical skills in analysis and judgment must accompany such skills. And, there is the
ever pressing question of schools costs as they add computer instruction to their already packed school schedule. What of those schools in the lower socio-economic fields who are not able
to afford classroom computers or computer labs, or those children whose parents cannot afford to buy a computer? "The public library offers free internet access" has been one of the
principal answers to the claim that those who are unable to afford a home computer system of their own. However, while this looks good on paper, the reality of
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