Oversold and Underused: by Larry Cuban, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001, 250 pp.

✍ Scribed by Bruce Myint

• Book ID: 104454000
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 24 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8755-4615
• DOI: 10.1016/s8755-4615(03)00019-7

✦ Synopsis

If you're reading this, chances are you are someone that Stanford University Professor Larry Cuban would call an early adopter of technological innovations-differing greatly from colleagues both in the frequency with which you use computers in the classroom and in your pedagogy. In short, you are one of a small group-by Cuban's estimate 5% of educators-at the vanguard of an educational technology revolution. As an early adopter, odds are, you are also surrounded by colleagues who groan at the use of computers in the classroom, despite abundant technology resources at their disposal and their frequent use of computers for personal work. This situation, according to Cuban, is not unusual.

Oversold and Underused is useful reading for anyone interested in the disuse and misuse of educational technology. In his newest book, Cuban, a former high-school social studies teacher and district superintendent, continues to examine the unfolding history of school reform and the complicated, often contradictory, aims of education. These topics appear in his previous works as well: