About 90% of schools provide laptops or tablets to their students. Over the past two decades, school districts have spent billions of taxpayer dollars equipping classrooms with laptops and other ...

Technology provides instant accessibility to information, which is why its presence in the classroom is so vital. Smart phones, computers, and tablets are already an omnipresent element of everyday ...

The shift began in Maine in 2002, when then-Governor Angus King launched a program that put Apple laptops in the hands of every middle schooler.

Despite some concerns about the potential loss of access, parents and teachers applaud the district’s decision to have ...

While moderate use of computer devices can have academic benefits, especially when they are used at home, intensive use is often correlated with diminishing performance, writes Michael R. Bloomberg.

Biology professor Jody Hey was lecturing on human evolution one recent day at Temple University. His students vigorously took notes by hand in paper notebooks. There wasn’t a laptop in sight. Nor an ...

High school students sitting at the desk in the classroom during lesson, using laptops. NINA MOINI: We're excited about this here on Minnesota Now. As students and teachers are settling into their ...

Dr. Twenge is a psychology professor at San Diego State University and the author of “10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World.” The standardized test scores of American students had been rising ...