Children Using Technology Have Better Literacy Skills

eldavojohn writes "A UK study of three thousand children aged nine to sixteen suggests something that may not come as a shock to geeks: using technology increases a child's core literary skills. As Researcher Obvious put it, 'The more forms of communications children use the stronger their core literary skills.' And for those of us worried about a world of 'tl;dr' and 'Y U H8n?' the research claims that 'text speech' does not damage literacy. The biggest shortcoming of this research is that it appears the children graded their own writing in that their methodology was an online survey designed to ask the children which technology they use and then follow up with asking them how well they write to determine which children have better literacy skills."

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Re:Correlation is not causation

[Anonymous Coward]

I was wondering when you "correlation does not imply causation" faggots would step in and point out the obvious.

Of the 15 posts currently up, this will be the first one to NOT point that out!

From The Country That

[Anonymous Coward]

has created the most colonial disasters in the world: Israel, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Australia, United States, Afghanistan, Iraq, and
so on and so forth.

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