When it comes to research that fails to establish a causal effect (as in the previous post), nothing beats the flood of headline-making studies claiming that technology is messing with human brains.
Posts Tagged → research
More Math Does Not Lead to a Better Life
Getting better math scores will pay off with more money later in life.
At least that appears to be the conclusion of a 2024 study from the Urban Institute, as reported by The 74, “a nonprofit news organization covering America’s education system from early childhood through college and career”.
Listen To The Kids
The New York Times recently published a report on two studies showing that young Americans are “anxious about their lives, disillusioned about the direction of the country and pessimistic about their futures”.
Which is hardly surprising considering the behavior exhibited by most of their national “leaders”. As well as much of the news media.
The Failures of EdTech
UNESCO recently released a 427-page report on the use of technology in education around the world called the 2023 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report: Technology in education: A tool on whose terms?
In it they don’t find many positive things to say about edtech.
Still Coming Tomorrow
Last month I wrote about the anniversary of the game Oregon Trail, a significant point in my history with instructional technology. That trip down memory lane reminded me of a post from last year by long-time edtech writer and critic Larry Cuban in which he asks Whatever Happened to Apple Classroom of Tomorrow.