Filling schools with technology improves attainment, according to a $65m study conducted in the U.K. — but only for kids in the 11 year-old group.
The experiment used "test beds," 23 low-performing schools saturated head-to-foot in computers and related curricula, to see if the resulting electromagnetic fields would fill children's brains with smart cancers that could do their trigonometry and Chaucer for them.
Despite the bump in pre-pubescent scores, it seems to have trailed off by 14, at which age kids have discovered the true purpose of 'puters: playing games. The results (detailed at the following BBC story) scream "statistical noise" to me, and in any case show that for the majority of youngsters, putting an LCD between them and teach doesn't help an awful lot when it comes to passing standardized tests.
