The Internet Playground: Children's Access, Entertainment, And Mis-education (Popular Culture and Everyday Life) Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:214993 L3 - citeulike-article-id:214993 N2 - {Based on four years of experience teaching computers to 8-12 year olds, media scholar Ellen Seiter offers parents and educators practical advice on what children need to know about the Internet and when they need to know it. <I>The Internet Playground</I> argues that, contrary to the promises of technology boosters, teaching with computers is very difficult. Seiter points out that the Internet today resembles a mall more than it does a library. While children love to play online games, join fan communities, and use online chat and instant messaging, the Internet is also an appallingly aggressive marketer to children and, as this book passionately argues, an educational boondoggle.} SN - 0820471240 TI - The Internet Playground: Children's Access, Entertainment, And Mis-education (Popular Culture and Everyday Life) PB - {Peter Lang Publishing} KW - children KW - education KW - entertainment KW - internet KW - literacy KW - media_literacy KW - nml KW - popular_culture AU - Seiter, Ellen PY - 2005/04/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0820471240 ER -