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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
DuhAlthough computerized learning is all the rage these days... I'm not surprised one bit by this study:
Hell... I've seen the effects that laptops can have in classrooms, when the students are in college. Even there its a bad idea. When I was a junior at MSOE, they were just starting a program for freshmen where they were forced to buy laptops as part of tuition. They took those laptops everywhere, and to every class. That freshman class reportedly had the worst class wide GPA in the history of the school. Professors started telling their students not to bring their laptops to class. And those were college students... just imagine the effect on grade school kids. I write software for a living, and even I know that computers can't replace everything. Heck, maybe I'm in a better position than most people to realize exactly what a computer can't do.
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