Computers as Tutors: Solving the Crisis in Education. - Review - book review

Adolescence,  Fall, 1999  

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BENNETT, Frederick. Computers as Tutors: Solving the Crisis in Education. Sarasota, FL: Faben, 1999. 232pp. $25.00 (h).

Computers as Tutors accentuates how an altered use of technology can change education. Until now, computers have been a dramatic failure in schools. Despite millions of machines, test scores remain at the same low levels. In this examination of education, Bennett shows why computers have failed, but how, if used differently, they can revolutionize schools. Children, parents, teachers, and society will all benefit. Bennett states, "Alexander the Great benefitted by having a king, Philip of Macedon, as his father. The king was astute and had the power and foresight to recruit the brightest person in the known world, Aristotle, as the private tutor for his son. Not everyone can have a king for a father, but each student today can have a private tutor with even more knowledge than Aristotle. This tutor is a computer."

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