As computers have become more important in professions and the workplace, many Americans have assumed they should become equally important in the classroom. However, educators and parents are now finding disturbing data which, at the very least, cast doubt on the assumption that computers play a valuable role in early primary grades. There is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning.
Districts rush to deploy high tech tools, but few academic gains are seen.
It found no demonstrable benefit from the classroom computers. Learning in the Real World is dedicated to a rational examination of the costs and benefits of education technology before a decision is made concerning where and how much to invest. Earlier Disappointments This is not the first time Californians Americans have been promised a quick solution by computer proponents. In the late '70s there was a rush of enthusiasm to place computers in every California school with the notion that they would solve our learning problems. A basic truth in education is that a child must be literate before he or she is computer literate.