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Too Many Computers Hurt Learning
An anonymous reader writes "The Christian Science Monitor is running a story on a recent University of Munich study of school children in 31 countries that found a correlation between frequent computer usage and poor academic performance. Having more than one computer in the home was found to be particularly bad news! For those Slashdotters with children, how do you deal with your kids' computer use?"
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You're question presupposes that us Slashdot nerds actually have enough of a life to:
1) Turn off the computer(s)
2) Date (or more accurately, find a girl desperate enough to go out with us)
3) Turn off the computer(s) and go out long enough to have a serious relationship
4) Marry (nowadays optional)
5) Turn off the computer(s)and actually make kids
6) Give up control of one or more of *your* computer(s) so that the aforementioned hypothetical kids can get on the computer(s) so that later, as you realize there is more to parenting than sitting them in front of a computer screen the entire day, you can kick them off
Sounds like a long shot to me.
Sounds double plus good to me!
You can have my cynical agnosticism when you pry it from my cold, dead logic.
You do realize that some people are cursed with writing problems. I normally get "their" and "there" wright but sometimes I slip, I still after 27 years need to be conscious on what I am writing.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
3. the computer is used for schoolwork and research.
Then what the heck are you doing here?