Classroom Tech Might Not Help Test Scores

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Tech in the Classroom

Tech in the Classroom

Schools around the country are spending billions of dollars trying to get more technology in the classroom, but it may not be helping students’ test scores. It’s argued that connected devices and better computers help students learn at their own pace, while standardized testing may be flawed itself. Technology is meant to aid, not replace teaching. Read the full article at NYTimes.com

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Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).

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  • Michael Silbergleid

    New technology, same argument:. My thesis from 1992: Instructional television: Visual production techniques and learning comprehension.

    The purpose of this study was to determine if increasing levels of complexity in visual production techniques would increase the viewer’s learning comprehension and the degree of likeness expressed for a college level instructional television program. A total of 119 mass communications students at the University of Alabama participated in the study. There was no significant difference found in the level of learning comprehension or the degree of likeness between the experimental groups that saw the basic version (cuts-only editing, on-camera graphics, and simple computer character generation), the advanced version (basic version plus dissolves, fades, and computer generated static graphics), and the extravagant version (advanced version plus digital video compression, digital video expansion, and computer generated moving graphics) of the same instructional television program. These results lead to two conclusions: (1) instructional television producers may utilize complex visual production techniques when appropriate without fearing any negative effects on learning; and (2) organizations need not spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for television equipment when equipment costing only tens of thousands of dollars will produce the same educational results.

    http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED349942&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED349942