Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability

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Let Them Eat Data OTHER BOOKS BY C. A. BOWERS The Progressive Educator and the Depression: The Radical Years (1969) Cultural Literacyfor Freedom (1974) The Promise of Theory: Education and the Politics of Cultural Change (1984) Elements of a Post-Liberal Theory of Education (1987) The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing: Understanding the Non-Neutrality of Technology (1988) Responsive Teaching: An Ecological Approach to Classroom Patterns of Language, Culture, and Thought (1990, with D. Flinders) Critical Essays on Education, Modernity, and the Recovery of the Ecological Imperative (1993) Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis: Toward Deep Changes (1993) Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture: Rethinking Moral Education, Creativity, Intelligence, and Other Modern Orthodoxies (1995) The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools (1997) Educating for Eco-Justice and Community (forthcoming) Let Them Eat Data How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability C. A. BOWERS The University of Georgia Press Athens and London © 2000 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Set in 10.3 on 15 Minion by G&S Typesetters Printed digitally in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data LCCN Permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/00026718 Bowers, C. A. Let them eat data : how computers affect education, cultural diversity, and the prospects of ecological sustainability / C. A. Bowers. viii, 216 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-8203-2229-6 (alk. paper) ISBN 082032230X (pbk.: alk. paper) Includes bibliographical refer ences (p. 197–204) and index. 1. Computers and civilization. 2. Education—Data processing. I. Title QA76.9.C66 B68 2000 303.48'34 21LC 00-26718 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN for this electronic edition: 978-0-8203-4073-9 ...