Teachers Union: Computers Can Negatively Impact Children's Ability To Learn

Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes "A teacher's union in Northern Ireland is asserting that children spending too much time on computers are impairing their ability to learn. The asserted excessive computer use is being blamed for an inability to concentrate or socialize. As one teacher puts it, '... these gadgets are really destroying their ability to learn.'" This has been a topic of debate for as long as kids have had computers.

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Re:Really?

[Totenglocke]

In other professions, you're expected to put in as much time as necessary to get the job done. Teachers do seven hours a day with usually 1 hour a day to "prep" and 30 minutes to an hour for lunch, so 5 to 5.5 hours per day of teaching, not to mention that they work 9 months out of the year. Factor in that an experienced teacher can re-use the majority of their materials from previous years and there's very little truth to the "teachers are overworked" claims.