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Technology Doesn't Make School Pupils Smarter: Study by galantjoe(m): 7:03pm On Sep 15, 2015 |
Computers do not noticeably improve school pupils'
academic results and can even hamper performance, an OECD report
said Tuesday that looked at the impact of technology in classrooms
across the globe.
While almost three quarters of pupils in the countries surveyed used
computers at schools, the report by the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development found technology had made no
noticeable improvement in results.
Conversely, in high-achieving schools in parts of Asia, where
smartphones and computers have become an integral part of people's
everyday lives, technology was far less prevalent in the classrooms.
In South Korea, students used computers for an average of nine
minutes at school and in Hong Kong, only 11 minutes - just a fraction
of the 58 minutes spent in Australia, 42 in Greece and 39 in Sweden.
"Where computers are used in the classroom, their impact on student
performance is mixed at best," OECD's education director Andreas
Schleicher said in a foreword to the report, the think-tank's first on the
topic.
"Students who use computers very frequently at school do a lot worse
in most learning outcomes, even after accounting for social
background and student demographics."
The report measured the impact of technology use at school on
international test results, such as the OECD's Pisa tests taken in
dozens of countries around the world and other exams measuring
digital skills.
It found that education systems which have invested heavily in
information and communications technology have seen "no noticeable
improvement" in results for reading, mathematics or science.
The OECD urged schools to work with teachers to turn technology into
a more powerful tool in the classroom and develop more sophisticated
software for experimentation and simulation, social media and games.
"The real contributions ICT can make to teaching and learning have
yet to be fully realised and exploited," it concluded. |
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