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Skriven 2005-07-02 16:26:01 av George Vandervort (1:382/8)
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Hello Tom!

Saturday July 02 2005 12:04, TOM WALKER wrote to ALAN ZISMAN:

 AZ>> This past spring, an Ohio study was reported in the press (it made
 AZ>> the fron page of our local daily) with a headline "Computers may
 AZ>> hurt kids' grades".. haven't seen the actual study, and can only
 AZ>> comment on what was reported in paper. It suggested that (in this
 AZ>> middle school in a middle and upper class neighbourhood where the
 AZ>> grade 7 and 9 kids all had access to laptops with wireless
 AZ>> Internet access), kids who spent less than 3 hrs per day
 AZ>> using computers saw an average 0.124 grade point gain in their
 AZ>> marks; kids who spe more than 3 hrs per day using computers had an
 AZ>> average drop of 0.078.
 TW>
 AZ>> The study was quoted as saying "When you spend too much time on
 AZ>> computers, t benefit of using technology seems to be cancelled out
 AZ>> or even outweighed by detriment that using technology could bring".
 TW>
 TW> Wow, I have been saying that for Years. And of course getting laughed
 TW> at. the problem that I( way form way far outside was to omany teachers
 TW> sinple using the Computer as a "Baby Sitter" and NOT using it for the
 TW> Tool in Learning it has the "possabibliy" of being. OF ccourse the
 TW> Teache must be soemwhat Computer Literatre. That is a BIG problem here
 TW> in California. We have Tenure locking in totaly imcompetatnt Teachers.
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I agree,

Computers were not around when I was in Grade school and
High School, we had to do math in our head and write it
out long hand or use a "Abacus" or Slide Rule to do calculations.

Kids that depend on Computers to do there Homework and
Math homework, are less likely to be able to figure out
complicated equations in their head without a Computer..

<sigh>



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George Vandervort
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