Computers: good for education?
In spite of government support for the increased use of technology in schools, research on the effectiveness of computers in the classroom is uneven. A sample of schools large enough for systematic investigation has not been found, and there are many ways in which computers are being used in school...
| Publicado en: | Public Interest no. 128; pp. 98 - 110 |
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Public Interest
Summer 1997
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