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2004-12-07 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Anonymoose 2004-12-07 7:46:08 PM|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Note the at school qualifier.

Posted by phil_b 2004-12-07 8:15:10 PM|| 2004-12-07 8:15:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-12-07 8:20:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 they kick ass at Halo, though....

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-07 8:25:52 PM|| 2004-12-07 8:25:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-12-07 8:26:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Our kids are jump certified?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-07 8:27:05 PM|| 2004-12-07 8:27:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-12-07 8:32:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 wrong Halo, Mrs D

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-07 8:37:36 PM|| 2004-12-07 8:37:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-12-07 8:49:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-12-07 11:41:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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