See also: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-technology-corrupts-education/ https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-t

See also: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-technology-corrupts-education/ https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-t... "Finally, the big hope had been to motivate students to learn through interactivity and “gamification.” What any given software vendor might tout as a stimulating lesson, however, is often just a frustrating distraction for students. The case of edustar basketball shows that even highly engaged students may not be learning any­thing at all: in a randomized controlled trial, more than five hundred students were assigned either to an ordinary module teaching how to divide fractions or to a module teaching the same topic using a basketball game–like computer program. Students assigned to the basketball game spent about five minutes longer on the lesson, but performed significantly worse than students following the regular method. Ultimately, tech that boosted student engagement just took a longer time to teach them less."