Hitting the right button (19 Nov 2002)

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Hitting the right button (19 Nov 2002)
But computers are no panacea, he warns. "People think boys and computers go together and obviously must raise achievement, but imagining these things happen almost by osmosis is totally incorrect. It's not just a question of giving boys a laptop - they need help and guidance on how to do it. Ask a boy to find out something on the internet, for instance, and he will cut and paste something, stick it into Word, hand it in and call it research. He probably hasn't even read it."

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