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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @07:04PM
It's give and take.
For a while, slashdot (and /new/) had some meaty conversations with some wise minds slaying ideas left, right and center. Ideas could be unraveled in hundreds of ways, and I learned a good deal just reading the back and forth from people with strong opinions and good arguments.
Alas, that isn't the case so much anymore, but occasionally someone here will make a novel argument, and there are at least one or two I would call a kindred spirit.