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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."
Reading ability also increases with shoe size.
rofl omg i been usin tech 4 a looooooong time since i wuz a kid now i read good but my boss tellz me not to send emails and memos nemore cuz no1 can read em lol!!!1
I no. this story iz so tru. i c ug apps 4 my college that luk lik this. way smart
More like "People on the internet have big egos". So what? I already knew that. Because I rock.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
The correlation is almost nobody sees either of those, anymore.
"Other research has shown a correlation between lack of ability and overestimation of ability in self-assessment."
True, we call them managers.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Other research has shown a correlation between lack of ability and overestimation of ability in self-assessment.
Though for completeness sake, it should be mentioned that those studies showed that correlation by asking the participants how much they had overestimated their own abilities.
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Study finds that toddlers who spend all their time on slashdot are much smarter than the average toddler. Well I knew that.
Incidentally, you have a number in your handle. I assume 4 is suppose to mean 'for'? :-)