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Excerto de um interessante artigo ("Can students have too much tech?") publicado no New York Times, acerca do impacto que a tecnologia em excesso tem em crianças e jovens. Nesta questão cada vez mais premente, as certezas superam já as dúvidas. O que fazer agora com toda esta informação? Questão que se segue. Não há como voltar atrás e a grande dificuldade reside na adequação das diferentes realidades. Coisa pouca, portanto!
“Students who gain access to a home computer between the 5th and 8th grades tend to witness a persistent decline in reading and math scores,” the economists wrote, adding that license to surf the Internet was also linked to lower grades in younger children.
In fact, the students’ academic scores dropped and remained depressed for as long as the researchers kept tabs on them. What’s worse, the weaker students (boys, African-Americans) were more adversely affected than the rest. When their computers arrived, their reading scores fell off a cliff.
We don’t know why this is, but we can speculate. With no adults to supervise them, many kids used their networked devices not for schoolwork, but to play games, troll social media and download entertainment. (And why not? Given their druthers, most adults would do the same.)"
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