Mais lenha na fogueira dos computadores!

Claudio Moura Castro envia o link de matéria recente do Washington Post, colocando em dúvida o impacto dos computadores na educação:

Software’s Benefits On Tests In Doubt – Study Says Tools Don’t Raise Scores

By Amit R. Paley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 5, 2007; Page A01

Educational software, a $2 billion-a-year industry that has become the darling of school systems across the country, has no significant impact on student performance, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Education.

The long-awaited report amounts to a rebuke of educational technology, a business whose growth has been spurred by schools desperate for ways to meet the testing mandates of President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law.

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Author: Simon Schwartzman

Simon Schwartzman é sociólogo, falso mineiro e brasileiro. Vive no Rio de Janeiro

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