PC Is Not a Good Educator
Teemu Leinonen,
FLOSSE Posse,
Jun 09, 2008
Teemu Leinonen reports on a study that is in turn covered by Slate to the effect that the provision of computers to lower-income Romanian families via a voucher program results in lower grades and lower likelihood of attending post-secondary education. With Leinonen, I agree that simply tossing computers into homes is more likely to produce a distraction than anything else. Also with Leinonen I wonder about the economists' naivety - why would they ask for "mothers at home" instead of, say, "teachers"? And I am suspicious of their metrics: do the figures really show lower grades, or is this simply an artifact of the data manipulation, and do lower grades in the Romanian school system really constitute a poorer education (or just a different one)?
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