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Technology doesn't make pupils smarter: study
Published Tue, Sep 15, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Tokyo
COMPUTERS do not noticeably improve school pupils' academic results and can even hamper performance, an OECD report said on Tuesday that looked at the impact of technology in classrooms across the globe.
While almost three quarters of pupils in the countries surveyed used computers at schools, the report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found technology had made no noticeable improvement in results.
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