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Giving poor kids computers, internet makes them stupider
The Register ^ | 21st June 2010 13:33 GMT | Lewis Page

Posted on 06/22/2010 2:11:40 PM PDT by snarkpup

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I guess Newt is wrong, again.


21 posted on 06/22/2010 3:13:15 PM PDT by rabidralph
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Can’t kids play farmville and chatroulette on the computers in the library? Why do they need their own computers?


22 posted on 06/22/2010 3:23:53 PM PDT by Dayman
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secondhand life...
23 posted on 06/22/2010 3:24:35 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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The nature of a computer is not to change things, but to only speed them up or make them more of what they are. Computerize a poorly designed business process, and you just speed up the mess, garbage in, garbage out faster then before.


24 posted on 06/22/2010 4:00:16 PM PDT by Grig
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If it were up to me, the first year that kids spend on a computer, they’d spend it at the command prompt.


25 posted on 06/22/2010 4:17:59 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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