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This article is, again, outdate in the realm of the technological world, but I think that the fact that it's outdated actually is useful here.

The study was done from 1990-1994 to see how technology influences education. From the conclusions of the study, technology had huge benefits:

• "Educational technology has demonstrated a significant positive effect on achievement. Positive effects have been found for all major subject areas, in preschool through higher education, and for both regular and special education students."
• "Educational technology has been found to have a positive effect on student attitudes toward learning and on student self-concept. Students felt more successful in school, were more motivated to learn, and had increased self-confidence and self-esteem when using computer-based instruction."
  
• "Introducing technology into the learning environment has been shown to make learning more student-centered, to encourage cooperative learning, and to stimulate increase teacher/student interaction."
• "Courses for which computer-based networks were used increased student-student and student-teacher interaction, increased student-teacher interaction with lower-performing students, and did not decrease the traditional forms of communication used."
• "Greater student cooperation and sharing and helping behaviors occurred when students used computer-based learning that had students compete against the computer rather than against each other."

I think that all of these points would only be further backed by research today. How can we not use technology, when all the research tells us good results!?

Sivin-Kachala, Jay; Bialo, Ellen R., 1994.

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Report on the Effectiveness of Technology in Schools, 1990-1994. The names of authoring organizations, e.g., a research foundation, government agency, school district, or university responsible for the intellectual content of the document. Interactive Educational Systems Design, Inc., New York, NY. Accessed online: http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED371726&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED371726