Students who use computers a lot at school have worse maths and reading performance, research suggests.
The belief that there is an educational benefit - and not just better work skills - has underpinned huge investment by governments, and many parents, in information and communication technology [ICT].
The new study was done by Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessmann of the CESifo economic research organisation in Munich.
They used the test performance and background data from the 2000 PISA study involving tens of thousands of students in 31 countries, including the UK..
~Learning involves something more than reading & responding to educational software programs? Who knew? Schools will need to change their tests to eliminate this pre-ICT bias.
Posted by Cieciel at November 25, 2004 02:02 AM