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This paper explores students’ expectations for an integrated informatics environment. We interviewed students from four secondary schools in New Orleans, LA. Our data show an unsettling lack of critical investigation in courses about informatics technology. Nonetheless, students have developed critical understandings of computers in society based on futurist portrayals of society on television and in popular films. Their expectations are mediated by social class. Working class and minority students are more likely to see the social contradictions of informatics technology than are other students.
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Griffith, A.I., Diaz, G., Murphy, C. (1995). Learners and their expectations for an integrated informatics environment. In: Watson, D., Tinsley, D. (eds) Integrating Information Technology into Education. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34842-1_23
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