Computers Make Kids Dumb

[Rekuja]

The main thing i have learnt from this computer...

1. Lazy Virus

[Paladin_Hammer]

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200...how_dumb_kids/



"The negative correlation, the researchers explain, is because children with computers neglect their homework more."

Strange. I almost NEED my computer to do World History projects, for my Marketing class, and for Biology 2. Yeah, the guys in this article are not only complete morons, but they lack common sense.

[Chaos]

Well I didn't become dumber of sitting behind my comp, I think it only improved my mind, like winged said using excel etc. And my English have become better and better.

[.:Link:.]

I didnt get dumber either, my english grammar went up. and there is much more that you can learn just by sitting at your computer.

[Dingy]

I didn't have a computer growing up, and I still turned out as dumb as a rock.

Rocks are smart things, try hitting one on a smart fellow and steal his brain.

Excuse the harebrained comment above.

Maybe these 100,000 pupils were already dumb.
How can children be awashed with facts and not know what to do with them...you're supposed to pickle them ofcourse. sappyness. I mean how can you ask such a question? "What are you supposed to do with facts?"
Its always the kids, their puters, their music (even if its classical--they'll attribute your homosexuality to that), their choice of sport, games, movies and even books. Its NEVER the teacher. Its never the education system and never ever the syllabi.

[Norgus]

Wow, in a thread about an inteligence and computer use negative correlation, it surprises me how many replies had crappy slang and shorthand terms.

If I was a teacher and you used '2' as any of the three 'two, to or too' in some work, or used a single letter to represent a word like 'r' as 'are' etcetera... I would kick you in the face. (now you know why I won't be a teacher)

I don't feel computers are a nagative impact on peoples inteligence, being ignorant an unwilling to learn how to use a computer could lead to you becoming more stupid (wasting time on the PC and not learning school OR computer things).

Computers can be a great aid to even the same education they can help to hinder as a distraction, they just need using in the right way.

edit: are we maybe forgeting a real offender of mass stupification? here is a small hint.. Television

[Dingy]

Television is not that bad...just yday I saw this thingy on how great computers are for kids.

[Vivi]

I didn't have a computer growing up, and I still turned out as dumb as a rock.

Don't feel bad. That's still one stage Higher than Dumb as a brick.

[GODJonez]

Thanks for me having Commodore 64 before I went to school, I could already count exponent calculations in the first year I was in school (I was 6 years old). And English... how can you be not learning it if you used computers?
Yes, one can use computer in a way that it affects badly to one's learning, but computer can be used very creatively also. At least I would say that my success in school is mostly achieved with the help from computers. The systematic working helps me understand systematic things that are taught in school.

[Bertinan]

I dont know about you guys, but this article is bullshit. The data has obviously been manipulated to give the impression these guys want, which is a common tactic of persuasive speech. You wouldnt even have to start with dumb kids. Just do normal kids from, say, America, and compare them to kids in Japan. The kids in Japan are FAR smarter, and their a lot more into computers and technology than kids in America will ever be.

Besides...with this trusty old computer, I manage to get off most of my rage through intense fights in CS, so no anger problems in school And considering most of today's data is being digitized, because its far cheaper, computers are becomming a necessity for homework such as essays, etc. Another thing they didnt mention...who's doing this study? People who dont have to worry about things like money or taxes, of course. The common people can go to hell, I would guess.

I grew up with computers, and I turned out fine. My grades suck, but I'm far smarter than most of my classmates, and, dare I say it, most of my teachers. Sorry for the long post

[polobunny]

I grew with computers, my maths grades were really sucky though. I'm not stupid cuz of that, there's even alot of people that say i'm brilliant. (Yeah that part might not show good on the internet, plz use firefox and not IE...XD)

This article makes me think about parents lying to their kids about various subjects like drugs, sex and such.
E1: Don't take drugs or you'll be stupid!
E2: Bees and flowers sex metaphor

In other words, a pile of crap.
I always thought teens that made a rebellion at their age were mostly lost kids, having no base of truth since their parents mostly lied to them when they were young. When discovering the "real world" and seeing how different it was from what they have been taught, most of them made a rebellion.
Incase you're wondering, i'm easy to live with (never gave big probs to my parents), and had a wonderful and really easy adolescence.

[Xaenn]

This article has one good point. Facts don't mean shit. They don't give you intelligence at all. However, the education system has been about "facts" for as long as I was in it. You don't learn why things are, or what their implications are, or how to think critically and logically. You memorize what things are, and regurgitate them later.

Computers allow one to easily get away from that. With Google and other great resources online you don't need to memorize a bunch of facts. If I want to know how to convert from angstroms to some other unit, I don't memorize it, I look it up.

Having such easy access to facts allows one to spend their time on thinking. Now if there was an emphasis on thinking in school, it would be another story. But for that to take place you first need to get intelligent teachers; how else can you have an intelligent discussion and learn when your teacher doesn't know how to think? And second, parents need to learn to discipline their children; If they give their children no direction, and don't engage them at all, how can they expect them to turn out well?

As long as students are unmotivated and act like assholes, you won't get good teachers. As long as parents neglect their children you won't have good students. As long as consumerism dominates parents you will have neglected children...Interesting what this comes back to...

[Cyberxion]

Wow, in a thread about an inteligence and computer use negative correlation, it surprises me how many replies had crappy slang and shorthand terms.
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Right. Because one's use of crappy slang and shorthand terms is obviously a reflection of their intelligence. More to the point, it's obvious that computers are to blame for it.
It couldn't possibly be that some message board dwellers simply use slang and shorthand terms as a method of conveying their unique personalities, or that they use it simply because they don't place much importance in typing things correctly on a message board who's main focus isn't grammar and spelling, but rather, videogames.

[Dingy]

As long as consumerism dominates parents you will have neglected children...Interesting what this comes back to...

hear hear.

[Paladin_Hammer]

You guys couldn't go one day without mocking the fact that Americans like to buy things??? What's wrong with stuff? Is it that we have it and you don't? Your kindly left in my will then...