Education in the Electronic World

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Tony Schwartz comments on the ways the electronic world affects education. As an example, he play a recording of his daughter Kayla demonstrating how different animals hop, which she learned after seeing a kangaroo on television. Schwartz also plays a recording of media theorist Marshall McLuhan talking about how hard children have to work to grow up, about the environment as a school, and about the democratizing power of electronic education.


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