Computers in Education

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The paper discusses the proliferation of computing technology across the second half of the 20th century and explores the opportunities computers and other technology offer to aid learning. The paper discusses in detail the benefits of catering to diversity, improving library systems and assisting all physical and learning disabilities. The paper then relates that socio-economic status is directly proportional to computer and Internet access, both at school and at home. The paper asserts that public education will benefit most when these enhancements become available to all.

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"Computers and computer based technologies have become a part of our everyday lives. For many Americans and for people around the world, the computer has come to be seen as a gateway to the conduction of all manner of personal, professional, consumerist and social activities, whether at home, at work and or while in transit. The fact of the computer's thorough integration into our lives is reflected with increasing seamlessness across generations, with our younger generations coming of age at a time when such technology is readily available, accessible and popularly appealing. As a point of fact, those who are entering elementary school today are considerably more likely to be well-acquainted already with the recreational and constructive aspects of the computer than were those who were entering into elementary school just a decade ago."

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