July 2010
Educational ICT at Home
Do Computers and Internet Access at Home Reduce Student Test Scores?
The recent New York Times article Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality brings into question the benefits of computer and Internet usage at home to improve education. Is this the home ICT usage reality? The article cites two studies that indicate that when computers and Internet access are provided to students for household […]
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Frameworks for Interpreting the Romania and North Carolina Home Computer Use Studies
Two recent studies on the effect of home computer access on students’ academic achievement have recently gotten a lot of attention after being discussed by David Brooks and Randall Stross in the New York Times. In Romania, children of families that won a voucher to purchase a computer had lower school grades in Math, English, […]
Groups and Grandma: Home Computer Use Boosters
In both the Romania and North Carolina studies, either researchers or readers of the reports have drawn the conclusion that children will not focus on school work if given unfiltered and undirected access to computers and Internet access. Yet Professor Sugata Mitra, famous for his “Hole in the Wall” experiment – where a computer was […]
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