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Next entry: Teachers on YouTube
Previous entry: A brief holiday
Friday June 13 2008

Well, here I am in France, but still able to post, albeit with an AZERTY keyboard, rather than a QWERTY keyboard of the kind that nature intended.  While on the subject of computers, here is Ray Fisman writing about why giving poor kids computers doesn’t improve their scholastic performance.  Computers depend on parents making kids use them for educational self-improvement, he says, rather than as mere games consoles.  Which are bad.

What I want to know is: what effect do computers and computer games playing have on your ability to do real life, rather than just your ability or willingness to be “scholastic”?