Is the jury still out on teaching with software?
A US Department of Education study, released earlier this spring, found that using reading or mathematics software in class had no significant effect on students’ test scores. The report, titled ‘Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort’, is available here. The News Tribune, a Washington state newspaper, reported the [...]
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Computer racing games make you a bad driver – at least, according to the findings of some recent research, both in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, and for the driving school company, BSM. In a sense, this finding is encouraging – apparently simple games are influencing complex real-life behaviour. If computer games are having [...]
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