WORLD OF LEARNING: COMPUTERS CAN HINDER LEARNING PART TWO

"Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality" New York Times 7/9/10

Randall Stross, a business professor at San Jose State, discusses the results of three separate research projects, all of which indicate that access to computers does not result in higher academic performance. Indeed, the effect might be lower grades. When I posted a Charlotte newspaper's summary of the Duke University study, I was surprised the Times did not have a story on it. They make up for it here. I loved Stross's arch conclusion in reference to Texas's four-year experiment in “technology immersion” : "When devising ways to beat school policing software, students showed an exemplary capacity for self-directed learning. Too bad that capacity didn’t expand in academic directions, too."