The Washington Post – Roberto A. Ferdman
“There’s an interesting thing happening in countries where kids are the most comfortable with computers: they aren’t reading all that well. In fact, the more children use computers at school, the more their reading abilities seem to suffer…computers might also be killing more helpful paths of thought and discovery. “Students are cutting and pasting answers instead of finding them,” said Andreas Schleicher, who is the director of education at the OECD and lead author of the study. Schleicher, who said the data should be very sobering, points to the fact that the highest performing education systems, like that in Singapore, are typically quite cautious about introducing technology as evidence that computers aren’t helping in the way many might argue. “In most countries, the current use of technology is already past the point of optimal use in schools,” he said. “We’re at a point where computers are actually hurting learning.””(more)