| Is this the nail in the One Laptop Per Child coffin? |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Another day and another hit to the once-celebrated One Laptop Per Child program. The 570,000 laptops handed out in Uruguay did nothing to improve students’ reading and math scores, according to a new report on the program, with the majority of students not using the computers. “The evidence shows that computers by themselves have no effect on learning and what really matters is the institutional environment that makes learning possible: the family, the teacher, the classroom, your peers,” blogged Francisco Mejía, principal evaluation economist for the Inter-American Development bank, about the research paper. The proportion of students who regularly used the laptops fell from 41 percent in 2009 to 4.1 percent by 2012. Mejía said the fact that the computers were not used in the curriculum might be partly to blame for the drop. Nearly 70 percent of the students used the laptops less than once a week. |
| Source: Humanosphere (WA-USA) | Published: September 30th, 2014 |
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