Computers could "harm learning"

More technology at school can have a detrimental effect on education and computers at home can harm learning, new research suggests. Although the study by Germany's Ifo Institute http://www.ifo.de at the University of Munich found that children who used computers very little fared worse than those who use them a "moderate amount", it crucially revealed that very frequent use of computers forced performance back down again. As The Scotsman http://news.scotsman.com reports, according to the researchers, computers are a major asset to the classroom or bedroom, as long as their use is supervised and takes place alongside active teaching methods. The findings are set to cause alarm among those who advocate teaching through greater use of technology.