Intel installed a Wi-Fi network covering a Panda reserve in China: No, researchers aren't teaching Pandas to use computers. The network is used by researchers who can take laptops into the reserve and record data from there. Otherwise, researchers kept records on paper, which made looking up records difficult.
They could have used laptops, instead of paper, to record their data even without the WiFi network (and then transfer it to wherever it needs to go at the end of the observation period).