Alternet - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development looked at computer use among 15-year-olds across 31 nations and regions, and found that students who used computers more at school had both lower reading and lower math scores, as measured by Program for International Student Assessment. The study was actually conducted back in 2012, when the average student across the world, for example, was using the Internet once a week, doing software drills once a month, and emailing once a month. But the highest-performing students were using computers in the classroom less than that.
“Those that use the Internet every day do the worst,” said Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills...
Home computer use, by contrast, wasn’t as harmful to academic achievement. Many students in many high performing nations reported spending between one to two hours a day on a computer outside of school. Across the 31 nations and regions, the average 15-year-old spent more than two hours a day on the computer.
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Throwing computers at students does less good than throwing books at them because the chief *potential* benefit of computers is to guide them through books. This misguided, misdirected, and mischievous research can be filed with the creationists' ravings. The computer does not have to be a toy.
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