Technology doesn’t make school pupils smarter: study

No noticeable advantage: The report found that education systems which have invested heavily in information and communications technology have seen

TOKYO: Computers do not noticeably improve school pupils’ academic results and can even hamper performance, said an OECD report that looked at the impact of technology in classrooms across the globe. 

While almost three quarters of pupils in the countries surveyed used computers at schools, the report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found technology had made no noticeable improvement in results.