From: Deb Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 06 2003 - 20:30:10 PST
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20031106201942.00aa0880@192.174.2.1> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:30:10 -0800 From: Deb Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu> Subject: Fwd: Author of "The Flickering Mind" to read in San Francisco! Educators attend FREE
Thought this might be of interest to Pinholers.
Deb
>Dear Educator:
>
>Thought you and your colleagues might be interested in this award-winning
>author and his newest book about technology in the classroom. He will be
>doing two readings with discussion in San Francisco this month. Should be an
>important and lively conversation. Feel free to post this notice or forward
>it to friends and associates. Hope to see you there!
>
>Nina Sazevich
>Outreach Consultant
>
>AUTHOR APPEARANCE AND READING
>November 17 & 24, 2003
>
>TODD OPPENHEIMER, AWARD-WINNING LOCAL WRITER,
>Reads from his new book
>THE FLICKERING MIND: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and
>How Learning Can Be Saved
>
>
>The rapid spread of computers in schools has been widely promoted as a great
>step forward. In truth, it is putting today¹s students at greater risk than
>ever.
>
>THE FLICKERING MIND is an investigative look at how the frequent misuse of
>technology in schools is dumbing down the academic experience, corrupting
>the schools' financial integrity, and fostering a misguided education
>policy.
>
>Oppenheimer won the 1998 National Magazine Award for his Atlantic Monthly
>cover story on this subject, and has received numerous other awards over the
>years for both his writing and investigative reporting. To write this book,
>he spent three years criss-crossing the country from Harlem and the
>hollows of West Virginia to the wealthy suburbs of Washington D.C. and San
>Francisco investigating dozens of schools and interviewing hundreds of
>teachers and education leaders.
>
>With vivid portraits and compelling anecdotes, THE FLICKERING MIND tackles a
>slew of commonly held myths about everything from the digital divide to
>distance learning. Oppenheimer concludes by examining a number of education
>bright spots, particularly those schools that integrate technology
>appropriately an d encourage what he calls "the enlightened basics" of the
>arts, historical analysis, and scientific inquiry.
>
>"This is the most important book of its kind since Jonathan Kozol's Savage
>Inequalities"
>-Gregg Easterbrook, Senior Editor of The New Republic
>
>"Do not, repeat not, let the world Œtechnology¹ in the subtitle scare youŠ
>Oppenheimer knows how to cxplain complicated topics clearly. He uses
>scene-setting and anecdotes regularly, sometimes elevating the writing from
>clear to compelling."
>- The Seattle Times
>
>WHAT:
>
>Author Todd Oppenheimer discusses and reads from his book THE FLICKERING
>MIND
>
>WHEN AND WHERE:
>
>November 17, 6 p.m. Mechanics Institute Library, 57 Post Street, San
>Francisco. Free to members of the Institute, $5 for the general public
>(educators with ID free)
>
>November 24, 7 p.m. A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, Opera Plaza, 601
>Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. FREE
>
>INFO:
>
>Visit the website at www.flickeringmind.net
Deborah Hunt
CTL Senior Information Specialist
Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu
mailto: dhunt@exploratoriu.edu
415-353-0485
(fax) 415-561-0370
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