According to this essay teaching has made little advance under the influence of computerised learning. On the contrary, as the article states:

(..) Recent research, including a University of Munich study of 174,000 students in thirty-one countries, indicates that students who frequently use computers perform worse academically than those who use them rarely or not at all.
The main reason seems to be that computers are never 'just another learning tool' -- they replace other learning activities and give children a false sense of control over their environment:

(..) educational computing is neither a revolution nor a passing fad, but a Faustian bargain. Children gain unprecedented power to control their external world, but at the cost of internal growth. During the two decades that I taught young people with and about digital technology, I came to realize that the power of computers can lead children into deadened, alienated, and manipulative relationships with the world, that children's increasingly pervasive use of computers jeopardizes their ability to belong fully to human and biological communities—ultimately jeopardizing the communities themselves.
I think this piece presents a very powerful argument against prevalent notions about the contribution of computers to learning, particularly because the author has seventeen years of personal experience in the field.

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