Study Shows Young Kids Learn Tech Skills before Life Skills

Tagged: kids, Life Skills, Off Topic, Study, Technology
Source: businesswire.com - Read the full article
Posted: 2 years 21 weeks ago

"Small children today are more likely to navigate with a mouse, play a computer game and increasingly – operate a smartphone – than swim, tie their shoelaces or make their own breakfast. This is according to a new ‘Digital Diaries’ study from Internet Security Company AVG (www.avg.com). AVG Digital Diaries is a series of studies looking at how children's interaction with technology has changed." | more

 

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Mon, 01/24/2011 - 09:31
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massau
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you are right how do you think that i learned English just by school lol :p i learned it trough games. there are probably a lot more things i learned from gamus but i do not know directly what

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Sun, 01/23/2011 - 16:46
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This is quite a shame, kids/younger teens should enjoy many things especially active stuff, I think it's fun... and games are not going anywhere while your outside =/

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Fri, 01/21/2011 - 06:35
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true i can't swim..in RL...but i do in the game

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Thu, 01/20/2011 - 16:14
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Why not make a video game that teaches kids how to tie their shoes in a fun way? People need to think outside the box, stop blaming the future and learn to adjust with the flow.

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