Computers and Education | Computer-Assisted Education May Not Enhance Learning
Alison Armstrong and Charles Casement are coauthors of The Child and the Machine: How Computers Put Our Children’s Education at Risk, from which the following viewpoint was excerpted.
Summary: The idea that computers in the classroom enhance learning is so widely accepted that few people have questioned it. In reality, there is little evidence to show that computer-assisted education improves students’ academic achievement. Research on the subject is ambiguous, and much of it is flawed because it uses standardized testing, which provides a...
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