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The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools ... read full description

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Mar 14, 2011
Heather rated it: 2 of 5 stars
I'd seen the author of this book speaking on a documentary about how bad people tend to be at multitasking, no matter how much we wish to believe differently. That appearance, coupled with the title of the book, made me think his work would be more about the effects on concentration as a result of all this technology we're exposing kids to in the interest of "up to date education." The book, instead, is a (very long, very in depth) study of why we should spend more time and money on More...
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