News tagged with computer skills

Children can learn arithmetic faster and better

During the first two years of primary education children can learn to do arithmetic faster and better with the help of a more systematically structured educational programme. For older children, teaching arithmetic with the ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Physicists map spiraling light to harness untapped data capacity

Physicists with the Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) at The City College of New York have presented a new way to map spiraling light that could help harness untapped data channels in optical fibers. Increased ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

South Korea tops digital literacy rankings

Young South Koreans, and girls, learn the best from computers and the Internet according to a survey of 15 year-olds in 19 countries, the OECD said on Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Good youth programs help teens learn to think not just logically, but strategically

Teens develop strategic thinking skills in youth activities that they rarely learn in the classroom, says a new University of Illinois study of 11 high-quality urban and rural arts and leadership programs.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Poorer reading skills following changed computer habits of children

Sweden and the US are two countries in which increased leisure use of computers by children leads to poorer reading ability. This is the conclusion from research carried out at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

How computer games could help us all make better decisions in life

A prototype computer game has been developed to help improve decision making skills in all aspects of our lives.

Technology / Software

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UM researchers are studying child-mother interactions to design robots with social skills

To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University of California in San Diego ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mobile and 'cloud' computing key future job skills: IBM

US technology titan IBM says the job skills of the future include savvy with smartphones, tablet computers and software hosted in the Internet "cloud" rather than standard desktop computers.

Technology / Business

created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Old math reveals new thinking in children's cognitive development

Five-year-olds can reason about the world from multiple perspectives simultaneously, according to a new theory by researchers in Japan and Australia. Using an established branch of mathematics called Category Theory, the ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Glasgow's joking computer

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Glasgow Science Centre in Scotland is exhibiting a computer that makes up jokes using its database of simple language rules and a large vocabulary.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2 weblog

Can Video Game Testing Spark Interest in Computing Among Black Youth?

Walk into almost any household that includes teenage boys and you'll find one or more video game consoles. Walk into that household past 10PM and you’re likely to find one or more teenage boys playing those ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Is Tetris good for the brain?

Brain imaging shows playing Tetris leads to a thicker cortex and may also increase brain efficiency, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Research Notes. A research team based in ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 21

Physics education improves when students make their own computer models

A current trend in secondary science education is for students to learn by discovering for themselves how things work. Computer modelling is a teaching method that fits in nicely with this trend and also with new learning ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Mixed reality' human helps medical students learn to do intimate exams

"What brings you in to see me today?"

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shift in simulation superiority

Science and engineering are advancing rapidly in part due to ever more powerful computer simulations, yet the most advanced supercomputers require programming skills that all too few U.S. researchers possess. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0