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Australian Broadcast Corp reports:
Research released from RMIT [Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology] University has found gaming helps boost results in maths, science and reading.
But researchers said scrolling through Facebook, Instagram or chat sites had the reverse effect, by hindering academic success in high school.
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Associate Professor Posso used data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) to analyse the online habits of 12,000 Australian 15 year olds, which he then compared to their academic results.He said the PISA data revealed that online gaming helped young people develop analytical and problem-solving skills.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the study found spending hours on social media was mostly wasted time for teenagers, in terms of academic performance.Australian teenagers who used Facebook or chat sites every day scored 20 points worse in maths than students who never used social media, the research said.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday August 09 2016, @05:33PM
The professor I had a long time ago for the computer graphics class thought video games and games in general were a waste of time. I could hardly believe they allowed the guy to teach that class. I learned later that the department head didn't know about the fellow's negative opinion towards games. Remarkable how the attitude has changed. The July 2016 cover of Scientific American is "Better Brains from Games."
Now all social media is a waste of time? That's a broad brush they're using. Facebook may be a waste of time, but a place like SoylentNews hosts a higher order of intelligent discourse!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @05:41PM
Everything is a waste of time unless it makes lots of money. Which explains why everyone loves shitty blockbuster big budget AAA games based on movie franchises.
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Tuesday August 09 2016, @06:01PM
Thanks for pointing out the broad brush, I hardly even think of SN as social media when it totally is. More research needed, some games probably have negligible effects the same as some social media. I would guess it boils down to whether you're challenging / using your brain enough.
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 2) by weeds on Tuesday August 09 2016, @06:42PM
"Social Media" is way to vague and that's not how it is presented in the article.
FTFA:
...researchers said scrolling through Facebook, Instagram or chat sites had the reverse effect, by hindering academic success in high school.
Later it says "social media" and goes on to specify:
...teenagers who used Facebook or chat sites every day scored 20 points worse...
Get money out of politics! [mayday.us]
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday August 09 2016, @08:01PM
From a teen perspective, social media is what mom and auntie and grannie use to look at kitten videos and like corporation pages due to advertising. Facebook is so like last decades news.
All I can do here is mod up ethanol-fueled's posts. I'd like the rickroll page if I could.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by krishnoid on Tuesday August 09 2016, @06:18PM
but a place like SoylentNews hosts a higher order of intelligent discourse!
Not to mention higher-quality sentence structure and vocabulary! I like it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @06:20PM
Speaking of broad brushes, that sounds suspiciously like every college professor I've had the misfortune of encountering. It's a weird world we live in where the academics are the bottom of the barrel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @09:00PM
like every college professor I've had the misfortune of encountering
You had a very short academic career, I take it? Forced to drop out so you could game more? Totally legit!
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Tuesday August 09 2016, @10:54PM
Judge every university by your shitty one why don't you. Almost all my teachers were outstanding in their fields.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @06:26PM
It is not just the games themselves, it is the context and the attitude of the player that affect what they get out of it...
I learned a lot about leading small teams of people when I ran raids in MMOs, that turned out to be useful in Project Management. Lots of people run raids though; why did I get more out of than most?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @06:41PM
I spent 23 years playing FPS, and I learned to work alone. I don't value life or money because of infinite respawns and infinite ammo pickups. People are worthless to me and I wish they'd all just die.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday August 09 2016, @08:45PM
I wonder if playing survival games like Fallout, 7 Days to Die and the like improve ones performance and survival chance in a natural disaster or shtf situation.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @09:04PM
I wonder if playing survival games like Fallout, 7 Days to Die and the like improve ones performance and survival chance in a natural disaster or shtf situation.
Stop wondering and get yourself down to the recruiter's office and sign up for Special Forces! Your question will be answered!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:49PM
c0lo 👍👍👍👍👍 this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford