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A Writer Who Questions the Wisdom of Teaching With Technology
- SamAtt 16y agoDon't waste your time with this. He's constantly saying studies agree with him but when pushed for an actual study this is the one he comes up with... There's a study called "The Laptop and the Lecture" that divided a class into two sets. One-half of the students could use their laptops in a classroom while listening to a lecture. They were free to surf the Web. And the other half had to keep their laptops closed. And then there was a test of comprehension. And the students who used their laptops scored significantly lower on the comprehension test for how well they could remember the content of the lecture. That has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with distraction. Place kids near a window they can look out of and you'll probably get roughly the same results. In short this is nothing more than Nicholas Carr trying to get people to pay attention to him
- kevin_morrill 16y agoThe Flickering Mind is a great book to read on this subject. http://www.amazon.com/Flickering-Mind-Technology-Classroom-Learning/dp/1400060443/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280441216&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Flickering-Mind-Technology-Classroom-L... Oppenheimer does a great job of citing actual studies. And it turns out despite thousands of different efforts, there's little evidence to say computer technology makes a bit positive impact on education. This isn't to say it's completely useless or that it doesn't provide overwhelming value in other industries. But I think our problems in education need to be solved in different ways. Key among them is challenging the philosophy of John Dewey.