29 de agosto de 2010

Study Finds Computers' Popularity Overstated


The typical student views computers as another "academic drudgery" and views peers who like the machines as unusually bright or unpopular, according to a study of children's attitudes toward computers presented at the American Psychological Association's recent annual meeting.

Moreover, the study found that students prefer not to use computers during their free time and increasingly develop misconceptions about computers, even after four years' experience with them.

"To make children computer-literate is much more difficult than we imagined," said Steven Pulos, one of three researchers at the University of California at Berkeley who conducted the study. "It's difficult to acquire an accurate conception of computers, a natural understanding of them. If you like computers, you risk being seen as a...

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