(sorry if already circulated - JW)
Pupils make more progress in 3Rs 'without aid of computers' By John Clare, Education Editor Telegraph (Filed: 21/03/2005)
The less pupils use computers at school and at home, the better they do in international tests of literacy and maths, the largest study of its kind says today.
The findings raise questions over the Government's decision, announced by Gordon Brown in the Budget last week, to spend another £1.5 billion on school computers, in addition to the £2.5 billion it has already spent.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/21/nteach21.xml
Pupils 'do worse with computers' Robert Booth, The Guardian Monday March 21, 2005
Academics will today argue that the growing use of computers in secondary school classrooms and for homework could be leading to worsening performance in literacy, science and maths.
An international study of about 100,000 15-year-olds in 32 different developed and developing countries suggests that the drive to equip an increasing number of schoolchildren in the UK with computers may be misplaced.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1442477,00.html#article_continue
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