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Author: Jane M. Healy
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Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds--For Better and Worse

In this comprehensive, practical, and unsettling look at computers in children's lives, Jane M. Download Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds--For Better and Worse from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Healy, Ph.D., questions whether computers are really helping or harming children's development. Once a bedazzled enthusiast of educational computing but now a troubled skeptic, Dr. Healy examines the advantages and drawbacks of computer use for kids at home and school, exploring its effects on children's health, creativity, brain development, and social and emotional growth. Today, the Federal Government allocates scarce educational funding to wire every classroom to the Internet, software companies churn out "educational" computer programs even for preschoolers, and school administrators cut funding and space for books, the arts, and physical ed Search and find a lot of computer books in many category availabe for free download.

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