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| Study: PCs make kids dumber |
| 2004-12-07 |
| Students who use computers frequently at school perform worse than their peers at maths and reading. Those using computers several times a week performed "sizeably and statistically significantly worse" than those who used them less often... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #9 nah it's prolly more legit than ye think. I took every computer class I could and slept through all the others, since you always pass to the next grade level there really was no incentive to learn english/math/ etc.. and tests were so pathetically easy I could generally get a C anyway end result, I sucked at everything but computers when I finished hs |
| Posted by: Dcreeper 2004-12-07 11:41:49 PM |
| #8 This is an absolutely craptacular and worthless study. At least if the reporting is accurate. It does not demonstrate the purported conclusion. As phil_b pointed out, the "at school" qualifier is selectively applied. "Those using computers several times a week performed "sizeably and statistically significantly worse" than those who used them less often. In addition, there is no real discrimination between the alleged results in math and literacy tests for students with computers at home. Furthermore, what is a computer? GameBoy? Xbox? At best, this study undermines Clinton's attempt to subsidize computers in schools... because the dumbarses who don't have them at home are still going to be dumbarses if they get them at school. |
| Posted by: Angash Elminelet3775 2004-12-07 8:49:26 PM |
| #7 wrong Halo, Mrs D |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-07 8:37:36 PM |
| #6 IIRC it was Socrates who said books [or the ancient version thereof] made people lazy because they then didn't have to memorize the material. |
| Posted by: Don 2004-12-07 8:32:29 PM |
| #5 Our kids are jump certified? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-12-07 8:27:05 PM |
| #4 that probably has more to do with the increased amount of time they spend playing games and surfing the net for music or porn, than it does with using the computer. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-12-07 8:26:27 PM |
| #3 they kick ass at Halo, though.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-07 8:25:52 PM |
| #2 Note also the study is from Europe, where 2+2=5 and sensitivity is more importaint than any actual learning. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2004-12-07 8:20:57 PM |
| #1 Note the at school qualifier. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-12-07 8:15:10 PM |