Online gaming may boost school scores. Social media? Not so much.

If you or your kids are avid gamers, here's some good news: All that strategising may have a beneficial impact on school results. Whether regular Facebook use is a drag on one's English test scores — that's another question. A study conducted by Alberto Posso, a professor at Australia's RMIT University, found that teenagers who played online video games regularly were often able to improve their school scores.  Students who were daily social media users, however, tended to under perfo