if computers are having a negative effect on childrens education?

Answer 1

Can you elaborate please

Schools have computer lessons for children - it may not be a library study like we used to, but computers are a main source of our information and technology today, so why shouldn't they learn how to use them.

Answer 2

I don't think they have when you take some advice into consideration. Computers are very helpful for research and to simplify things. But if the computer is used to just play or to cheat on homeworks or any other stuff for school then I think it is negative. My biggest concern is that our children learn much faster then we did and much more then we did. Many of them have really problems with simple maths, because they learn to use a calculator rather then to do it in their head or on a piece of paper. So let them do what ever they want on a computer gives them just another shortcut to not do it them self. But when you are able to show how to use a computer to help and support their work I can't see any problems

Answer 3

the only thing having a negative effect on our childrens education is bad parenting, a child who knows the differance between right and wrong will go further than one who doesnt
my children live the same life as most other normal kids but they have been brought up not dragged through the gutter like a lot of others
people need to look at themselves before blaming the world and his wife for all their own shortcomings

Answer 4

The only negative effect is they can't do certain things manually as quick as I can. but they are faster on computers. So when we are all old and knackered they can do the work of 100 people and control robots and stuff and we can sit in the garden collecting our pensions and watching the roses grow. On the other hand - go with the George Bush plan and cut welfare spending before it's too late - and there aren't enough young people to keep the elderly.

Answer 5

So, have you ever regarded at your internet browser's heritage to confirm precisely what URLs your buddy visits? And, after 2 visits with an same outcomes, you should have stopped your buddy from utilising your pc (the first time would were a fluke, in spite of the indisputable fact that the 2d time became a demonstration that your buddy and your pc do not blend nicely).

Answer 6

what?

and no, computers dont diminish kids intelligence, quite the opposite. however, playstations and x boxes do nothing whatsoever for education and learning.

i remember the grief i got off my kids because i refused point blank to buy games consoles..but they each have their own PC, (weve each got our own) and now, theyre both at the top of their classes, and both of them are top in IT. (ones 11 the other 16) and theyve had a mouse in their hand from about age 2 or 3...mum taught them mouse control playing solitaire. jess the eldest could type command lines in DOS before she could write her own name... she was playing Doom at 4... and is off to study at warwick uni... (she turned down oxford and cambridge as not good enough) though i suspect it has more to do with warwick uni being five miles away...

computers today are the building blocks of commerce and engineering..without computer skills your going to be flipping burgers at macmurderburgers or pumping petrol... and how chavtastic is that...

Answer 7

No I'm on the computer all the time and I got an A* in my last exam.

OK my last exam was computer studies and I failed everything else but you cant have everything can you.

Answer 8

yes they are. Especially when they can just look something up on the internet instead of actually having to research it through the library or by reading books on it.

Answer 9

what's the question then - are they having a negative effect? I personally don't think so.

Answer 10

well they don't seem tob helping all that much. they don't seem to know how to use an encyclopedia or the dictionary.