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THE MORE TV CHILDREN WATCH THE LOWER THEIR SCHOOL MARKS
Staff Reporter / 2010-03-06 11:20:39
The inadequate use of internet, video games and television is being blamed for school failure in many children. Salvador Peiró i Gregòri, a profesor and investigator at Alicante University, says that it is leading to pupil’s lack of ability to concentrate and to a lower intellectual capacity in adolescents.
Peiro has spent years working on this topic. He says that each year youngsters seem to get more and more addicted to new technology, and families seem to accept this as normal behaviour. One study has revealed that the intellectual level of adolescents is lower now than it was 3o years ago, and that communication via text messages and emails is lowering it further.
He goes on to say that many pupils do their work by copying and pasting paragraphs from websites, and that this is lowering their vocabulary and level of comprehension.
The television is changing values, with consumerism becoming the norm, and pleasure the aim. A lack of tolerance is another added result. According to Peiro the more telly the kids see the lower their school marks are.
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