Mobiles, computers making teens ‘dumb’

[IndianSuperpower]

Teenagers’ obsession with mobile phones and computers is taking a toll on their education, suggests a new research
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Mobiles, computers making teens ‘dumb’. (Getty Images)
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Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development, Cranfield School of Management, found that almost 60 per cent of teenagers were submitting coursework downloaded from the web without reading, rewriting, or understanding it.

The survey also found that the students’ addiction to text messaging was also affecting the standard of English, reports Times Online.

Three in ten respondents used text-message abbreviations, such as l8 (late) or RU (are you) in their coursework, with more than half of the 260 pupils saying they were either quite or very addicted to their mobile phone.

Kakabadse said the study “showed that technology obsession hinders spelling skills, implicitly encourages plagiarism and disrupts classroom learning”.

He added: “Despite school policies restricting mobile phone usage, students use the phone frequently with the majority making calls from the toilets.”

 

[abiab]

So you are a dumb now



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“Despite school policies restricting mobile phone usage, students use the phone frequently with the majority making calls from the toilets.”

 

[IndianSuperpower]

So you are a dumb now



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I m not teen anymore

 

[Shiji]

I play 8-10 Hours PC a day (Non-Stop on weekends, all games) and send 250-300 SMS a day and still got 80% score in FSc Part 1 (I am 17 years old). This is completely incorrect that PC ruin education.

 

[DaRk WaVe]

False, i sit all day on computer got well above 80% marks in all major exams , it all depends on an individual...

 

[abiab]

I play 8-10 Hours PC a day (Non-Stop on weekends, all games) and send 250-300 SMS a day and still got 80% score in FSc Part 1 (I am 17 years old). This is completely incorrect that PC ruin education.

You lied ............you are a 7teen ........... so according to this report you are a dumb

This is completely incorrect that PC ruin education.

yeah student used to have bad grades when this stuff was not there

60 per cent of teenagers were submitting coursework downloaded from the web without reading, rewriting, or understanding it.

that's true......... some students are doing this alot

 

[IndianSuperpower]

False, i sit all day on computer got well above 80% marks in all major exams , it all depends on an individual...

and Cheating capabilities also

 

[Developereo]

A nation's youth all thumbs with PCs - Technology - theage.com.au

Relying solely on mobile phones, young Japanese are losing computer skills.

SHOKO Someya is a member of Japan's "thumb tribe". The 29-year-old travel agent from Saitama, north of Tokyo, does not own a PC and does not need to. Like many of her friends and millions of other young Japanese, she appears to use only her "keitai", or mobile phone, to send and receive emails, download music, access mixi (Japan's immensely popular version of Myspace), look at web pages, conduct an internet search, check train timetables and more.

"I'm pretty fast with my thumb, but you see some Japanese kids using both thumbs — they're really quick," says Someya, who regularly taps out long emails to friends on a high-definition 3.5 by six-centimetre colour screen.

For Australian mobile phone users, using technology that is inferior to that of their Japanese counterparts, this is a glimpse into the near future.

Accessing the internet on Japan's mobile phones has become so fast and easy that many young people have forsaken computers.

In 2004, Tim Clark, from the University of Southern California, made a prescient observation in the Japanese Media Review: "A surprising number of Japan's high school students graduate without learning how to use a personal computer."

Between 2000 and 2006, the proportion of Japanese 20-year-olds using home PCs to access the internet plummeted from 23.6 per cent to 11.9 per cent, according to figures released by Net Ratings and published in Facta online.

This means 20-year-olds now make up the same proportion of the total as 50-year-olds.

The plunge could be only partly explained by ageing in Japan's population and growth in PC use by other age groups.

Akihiro Utada, an internet analyst who has written several books on Japan's digital culture, says that "until Japanese people leave school, their primary means of communication is the keitai.

"After that, unless you're a university student, I don't think you really need to access the internet by computer here.

"For most Japanese the Roman alphabet keyboard is unfamiliar and unnatural, unlike for Americans and Europeans."

Internet browsing capabilities in Japan have improved markedly in recent years.

Most Australian websites, on the other hand, are not yet available in slimmed down, mobile-phone-compatible versions. The Australian mobile industry has developed some mobile-friendly sites with technology such as Telstra's Next G and i-Mode, which is based on technology licensed from Japan's biggest provider, DoCoMo, and was introduced in Japan in 1999. Mobile phone company 3 has developed a mobile version of eBay. But for the most part, accessing websites not developed by the telcos remains expensive, complicated and relatively slow. This is expected to change in coming years.

In Japan, gadget-obsessed 20-year-olds now have mobile phones that can surf between three high-definition PC websites at a time, handle Flash software, and download Word, Excel and PDF files at rapid speed.

But the problem is that their corresponding ability with PCs and keyboards has regressed to the point where it matches that of their parents.

Many of the country's 4 million young part-time workers cannot afford PCs, and are being permanently locked out of white-collar work because of their ineptitude with computers.

Last November, when users of au (KDDI) mobile phones (Japan's second biggest mobile provider after DoCoMo) were having trouble sending emails, they received messages saying, "The message could not be sent (110)".

About 5700 users called the police, who are listed under the same number in Japan. The police were not impressed by the mix-up. "PC users wouldn't have done something so thoughtless because they would have seen error codes before," Facta says. "As PC illiteracy increases, common sense will decrease."

Justin Norrie is an Age correspondent in Tokyo

 

[abiab]

and Cheating capabilities also

why some student go to bathrooms during taking the exam.

 

[Shiji]

60 per cent of teenagers were submitting coursework downloaded from the web without reading, rewriting, or understanding it.

I study in APSACS (Army Public School And College System) We don't do our reports from internet. We don't do any reports we simply learn our textbooks and take the exam.

Cheating

Cheating gives passing (45&#37 grade not 80% above grades.

 

[abiab]

Cheating gives passing (45%) grade not 80% above grades.

Is it mean that i am not a cheater?
than it is true

 

[Patriot]

Well obviously it also depends on the person.I learned everything from computer.I did not even know what F-16 was until i started using computer and internet.

 

[IndianSuperpower]

I study in APSACS (Army Public School And College System) We don't do our reports from internet. We don't do any reports we simply learn our textbooks and take the exam.

Cheating gives passing (45%) grade not 80% above grades.

That also depends upon individual cheating capabilities.......

 

[abiab]

A nation's youth all thumbs with PCs - Technology - theage.com.au

Relying solely on mobile phones, young Japanese are losing computer skills.

SHOKO Someya is a member of Japan's "thumb tribe". The 29-year-old travel agent from Saitama, north of Tokyo, does not own a PC and does not need to. Like many of her friends and millions of other young Japanese, she appears to use only her "keitai", or mobile phone, to send and receive emails, download music, access mixi (Japan's immensely popular version of Myspace), look at web pages, conduct an internet search, check train timetables and more.

"I'm pretty fast with my thumb, but you see some Japanese kids using both thumbs — they're really quick," says Someya, who regularly taps out long emails to friends on a high-definition 3.5 by six-centimetre colour screen.

For Australian mobile phone users, using technology that is inferior to that of their Japanese counterparts, this is a glimpse into the near future.

Accessing the internet on Japan's mobile phones has become so fast and easy that many young people have forsaken computers.

In 2004, Tim Clark, from the University of Southern California, made a prescient observation in the Japanese Media Review: "A surprising number of Japan's high school students graduate without learning how to use a personal computer."

Between 2000 and 2006, the proportion of Japanese 20-year-olds using home PCs to access the internet plummeted from 23.6 per cent to 11.9 per cent, according to figures released by Net Ratings and published in Facta online.

This means 20-year-olds now make up the same proportion of the total as 50-year-olds.

The plunge could be only partly explained by ageing in Japan's population and growth in PC use by other age groups.

Akihiro Utada, an internet analyst who has written several books on Japan's digital culture, says that "until Japanese people leave school, their primary means of communication is the keitai.

"After that, unless you're a university student, I don't think you really need to access the internet by computer here.

"For most Japanese the Roman alphabet keyboard is unfamiliar and unnatural, unlike for Americans and Europeans."

Internet browsing capabilities in Japan have improved markedly in recent years.

Most Australian websites, on the other hand, are not yet available in slimmed down, mobile-phone-compatible versions. The Australian mobile industry has developed some mobile-friendly sites with technology such as Telstra's Next G and i-Mode, which is based on technology licensed from Japan's biggest provider, DoCoMo, and was introduced in Japan in 1999. Mobile phone company 3 has developed a mobile version of eBay. But for the most part, accessing websites not developed by the telcos remains expensive, complicated and relatively slow. This is expected to change in coming years.

In Japan, gadget-obsessed 20-year-olds now have mobile phones that can surf between three high-definition PC websites at a time, handle Flash software, and download Word, Excel and PDF files at rapid speed.

But the problem is that their corresponding ability with PCs and keyboards has regressed to the point where it matches that of their parents.

Many of the country's 4 million young part-time workers cannot afford PCs, and are being permanently locked out of white-collar work because of their ineptitude with computers.

Last November, when users of au (KDDI) mobile phones (Japan's second biggest mobile provider after DoCoMo) were having trouble sending emails, they received messages saying, "The message could not be sent (110)".

About 5700 users called the police, who are listed under the same number in Japan. The police were not impressed by the mix-up. "PC users wouldn't have done something so thoughtless because they would have seen error codes before," Facta says. "As PC illiteracy increases, common sense will decrease."

Justin Norrie is an Age correspondent in Tokyo

which kind of people have enough time to prepare such kinda reports.

 

[Shiji]

Look all that I know is that a friend of mine Hassan (DK) scored 88% (482 out of 550) though he plays more PS-2 than all of our other friends combined. Its just that elders are trying to find ways to demoralize our usage of PC and Cell Phones!
Good Luck With That!