[LINK] School student computer program warnings come home to roost

[Tom Worthington]

On 03/02/13 10:06, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> I imagine if I went back through the Link archives, each of these
> results were predicted.
> http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/parents-face-laptop-slug-as-funds-run-dry-20130202-2drqr.html

Yes, I good start would be the thread started by Bernard Robertson-Dunn, 
29 March 2008: "Rudd's vow, but cost of computers to hit states": 
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2008-March/077787.html

Tom Worthington, "Computers for schools more than hardware" 20 February 
2008: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2008-February/077554.html

Richard Chirgwin, "Computer literate school children " 10 February 2000: 
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2000-February/001625.html

The first Link posting on computers and education I could find was from 
Tony Barry 31 May 1995: 
"http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/1995-May/022416.html"

Also of inteest is the analysis by Carole Kayrooz and Stephen Parker in 
"The education revolutionary road: paved with good intentions" from "The 
Rudd Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2007 - 2010", 
ANU ePress, 2010: 
http://epress.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/The+Rudd+Government%3A+Australian+Commonwealth+Administration+%092007+-+2010/5091/ch09.xhtml


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