How a computer will help educate a child quicker 计算机如何使孩子的学习效率提高
By Mark Blacklock
Computers in the classroom can help children to learn more than five times faster than normal, new research has revealed.
But new technology can only put pupils on the fast track in literacy and numeracy if they have highly－motivated teachers who know how to make the best use of school equipment.
The findings of a study by researchers at Newcastle University may reduce fears among some parents that computers might damage children's reading and writing skills.
Project manager Steve Higgins said:" With professional support and a focus on clearly identified subject objectives,teachers can use computers very effectively to help raise standards." He and his colleague David Mosley spent almost two years examining the effect of Information and Communications Technology in lessons.
They worked with hundreds of primary school pupils aged four to nine at 20 carefully selected schools in Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, Lancashire, Gloucestershire and the West Midlands.
The classes were picked because of their teachers' track record in achieving good results from pupils.
The children's standards were measured and recorded throughout the study and the methods of using high－tech aids analysed by the research team.
In subjects like mathematics, the children were able to pack an average of 2.8 months' work into just one month. In reading and writing the improvement was even more astonishing――5.1 month
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