Fool's Gold or Hidden Treasure: Are Computers Stifling Creativity?.

Abbott, Chris; Lachs, Vivi; Williams, Lawrence

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ERIC Number: EJ637024

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Publication Date: 2001

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Fool's Gold or Hidden Treasure: Are Computers Stifling Creativity?

Abbott, Chris; Lachs, Vivi; Williams, Lawrence

Journal of Education Policy, v16 n5 p479-87 Sep-Oct 2001

Disputes claims in recent report by US-based Alliance for Children that the use of computers by children threatens their creative and intellectual development. Describes two case studies of the creative uses of computers in United Kingdom elementary school classrooms. (Contains 17 references.) (PKP)

Descriptors: Children, Computer Software, Computers, Creativity, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Development, Primary Education

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom

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