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Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?

September 18, 2010/

There are two ways to use computers in the classroom. You can have them measure and represent the students and the teachers, or you can have the class build a virtual spaceship. Right now the first way is ubiquitous, but the virtual spaceships are being built only by tenacious oddballs in unusual circumstances. More spaceships, please.

By JARON LANIER

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19fob-essay-t.html?hpw

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