Are Our Children Becoming Too Dependant on Computer Based Information?
Some of the results coming from recent research highlight that our children are displaying an alarming propensity to lean rather too heavily on web based information. For some time our kids have performed their school work on a computer, researching homework support material on the web, producing printed packages for essays and projects, and we have all clapped our hands with glee at our kids ability to use this undeniably useful, modern facility. However, there is a sinister undertow in this seemingly perfect educational dreamscape; our children are losing their ability to reason, to solve problems, to analyse, to apply logic. The computer does all this for them, so they do not have to. We all know that the weaker counterpart of a set of twins will experience difficulty in learning to speak, because the stronger of the duo will take over, and speak on behalf of his or her brother or sister. If you do not need to utilise a skill, it dies off, or in some cases does not develop in the fi
