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from the we-always-knew-there-were-benefits dept.
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: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday August 10 2016, @12:58AM
Oh yeah, parents can absolutely teach you how to interact with peers. There's absolutely nothing they cannot provide when it comes to human interaction because parents are capable of the full range of human relationships and experiences. </sarcasm>
Schools exist for a reason, and that reason is to teach children what parents lack time/teaching skills/knowledge to teach. The only other subject I've seen dismissed like this as "parents should teach it" is sex education. That is its own problem but at least it's a subject the parent might not want the school teaching. Soft skills, not so much.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?