There are no technology shortcuts to good education.
For primary and secondary schools that
are underperforming or limited in
resources, efforts to improve education should focus almost exclusively on better teachers and
stronger administrations....
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There are no technology shortcuts to good education.
For primary and secondary schools that
are underperforming or limited in
resources, efforts to improve education should focus almost exclusively on better teachers and
stronger administrations.
Information technology, if
used at all, should
be targeted for certain, specific uses
or limited to wellfunded schools
whose fundamentals are not in
question.
To back these assertions, I’ll draw
on four different lines of evidence.
1.
The history of electronic technologies in schools is fraught
with failures.
2.
Computers are no exception,
and rigorous studies show that it
is incredibly difficult to have positive educational impact with computers.
Technology at best only
amplifies the pedagogical capacity of educational
systems; it can
m a k e g o o d
schools better,
but it makes bad
schools worse.
3.
Technology has
a huge opportunity cost in the
form of more effe c t i v e n on technology interventi
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