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Ask HN: Has technology benefited the classroom?
As a teacher, I've seen new technologies being pushed into the classroom as tools to help students: from the SmartBoard, iPads, being allowed to use cellphones in the classrooms, carts full of laptops, etc.
Is there any research out there that shows the benefits of technology being incorporated in the classroom? Does the opposite exist? If research does exist, are these studies independently funded or are they funded by the companies of these techonologies?