{"id":545,"count":3,"description":"The recent New York Times article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/11\/business\/11digi.html\">Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality<\/a> brings into question the benefits of computer and Internet usage at home to improve education.  The article cites two studies that indicate that when computers and Internet access are provided to students for household usage - either subsidized or not - home-based ICT does not have any measurable educational benefit, even <i>reducing<\/i> test scores in math and English in low-income students.  For this month's Educational Technology Debate, we'll question these studies, and similar ones, to try and explain these results and what they might mean to educators in the developing world.","link":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/archive\/educational-ict-at-home\/","name":"Educational ICT at Home","slug":"educational-ict-at-home","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}