Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds--for Better and Worse

A cautionary approach to classroom computer use is advocated in this thoughtful examination of how modern educational goals are not always best served by technology and how children react both physically and mentally to the extensive use of computers. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., has been an educational psychologist and professional educator for more than thirty-five years, with experience as a classroom teacher, college professor, reading and learning specialist, and elementary school administrator. The author of three previous books, including Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think -- and What We Can Do About It, she is a frequent guest on NPR's Parents' Journal and a lecturer and consultant to public and private schools and parent groups. She is a parent and grandparent, and lives with her husband in Vail, Colorado.