In correlation with the abusive use of hypermedia and multimedia, computers ability to speed up the learning process can be more harmful than foreseen. ... If we do, the drilling reading in an age of multimedia is a waste of time" cant be far behind" (275). ... Altogether these are questions posed after reading Gelernter's article which are directly correlated to the "what if?...

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Further, he demonstrated that 60 per cent of the pupils he studies had insufficient reading ability to deal with the large beginning vocabulary loads of bookkeeping textbooks; he suggested that there was need for better texts, more emphasis upon discussion, and slower teacher presentation. ... Speed was found to be a stable factor and not to be achieved at the expense of accuracy. ... Martin's experiment (29) tested the use of a continuous speed-forcing method against use of an interval speed-forcing method. A significant difference between groups was found in error rate but not on sp...

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I found that having a laptop of my own for educational purposes such as research and note-taking was very beneficial but at the same time, I spent the last two years of high school staring at a computer screen, taking notes, reading, everything become electronic. ... Computers speed up the process of learning, they give everyone an endless supply of information on basically any topic you can possibly imagine. ...

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