{"product_id":"schools-and-screens-isbn-9780262045230","title":"Schools and Screens","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy screens in schools—from film screenings to instructional television to personal computers—did not bring about the educational revolution promised by reformers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong before Chromebook giveaways and remote learning, screen media technologies were enthusiastically promoted by American education reformers. Again and again, as schools deployed film screenings, television programs, and computer games, screen-based learning was touted as a cure for all educational ills. But the transformation promised by advocates for screens in schools never happened. In this book, Victoria Cain chronicles important episodes in the history of educational technology, as reformers, technocrats, public television producers, and computer scientists tried to harness the power of screen-based media to shape successive generations of students. \u003cbr\u003e            Cain describes how, beginning in the 1930s, champions of educational technology saw screens in schools as essential tools for training citizens, and presented films to that end. (Among the films screened for educational purposes was the notoriously racist \u003ci\u003eBirth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e.) In the 1950s and 1960s, both technocrats and leftist educators turned to screens to prepare young Americans for Cold War citizenship, and from the 1970s through the 1990s, as commercial television and personal computers arrived in classrooms, screens in schools represented an increasingly privatized vision of schooling and civic engagement. Cain argues that the story of screens in schools is not simply about efforts to develop the right technological tools; rather, it reflects ongoing tensions over citizenship, racial politics, private funding, and distrust of teachers. Ultimately, she shows that the technologies that reformers had envisioned as improving education and training students in civic participation in fact deepened educational inequities.Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e1. Civic Spectatorship: Making Citizens through Screens, 1933-1946 13\u003cbr\u003e2. Better Teaching Through Technology, 1953-1962 43\u003cbr\u003e3. Multimedia for Thinking and Feeling, 1962-1974 75\u003cbr\u003e4. Critical Viewing: Literacy and Media in a Televised Age, 1969-1992 105\u003cbr\u003e5. Personal Screens, 1977-2000 141\u003cbr\u003eConclusions 175\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 187\u003cbr\u003eArchival Abbreviations 189\u003cbr\u003eNotes 191\u003cbr\u003eIndex 261“Victoria Cain has produced our most sophisticated history of educational technology in the United States. Anyone who wants to understand the allure of the screen in school—and how it illuminated key ideas of race, citizenship, and education itself—will have to look at this brilliant book.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education, University of Pennsylvania; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“An important and timely look at the social history of screens and the very long-running battles over whether they’ll ruin or save education.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAudrey Watters, author of \u003ci\u003eTeaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Cain’s unflinching and deeply researched account of the promises and realities of screens in schools over the last century should be required reading for anyone wanting to understand technology in education.”\u003cbr\u003e—Morgan G. Ames, author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, Media Ecology Association Book Awards, 2022\u003c\/b\u003eVictoria Cain is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eLife on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302194663653,"sku":"NP9780262045230","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262045230.jpg?v=1767736193","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/schools-and-screens-isbn-9780262045230","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}