Posted on 08/27/2016 6:10:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Susan* bought her 6-year-old son John an iPad when he was in first grade. “I thought ‘why not let him get a jump on things?’ ” she told me during a therapy session. John’s school had begun using the devices with younger and younger grades—and his technology teacher had raved about their educational benefits—so Susan wanted to do what was best for her sandy-haired boy who loved reading and playing baseball.
She started letting John play different educational games on his iPad. Eventually, he discovered Minecraft, which the technology teacher assured her was “just like electronic Lego.”
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I conquered the world on an Etch-a-sketch. Imagine what I could have done with an iPad?
For my kids it's "Roblox."
I’m approaching the same point.
Unfortunately, I own about 4,000 paper books. Seriously. Drives my wife nuts.
After the revolution, when TP disappears, she’ll change her tune.
“You mean you can read my mind?”
“Yes.”
“And?”
“It amazes me how you manage to live in anything that small.”
There has grown an addiction of sorts to “screens”, no doubt about it.
Not good.
Many of us are losing the ability to communicate in real life, face to face with other human beings. The screens give us only what we desire, on demand, and without much resistance...we are becoming “masters” who refuse to be denied.
Does not bode well for the future. Or our humility.
I see very little positive from my homeschooler playing these games and equally as little working on line. She is 12, and if she has a phone, she is completely lost in it, like 90% of the morons out there who have their face buried in one. When she gets in trouble and loses her computer privileges, everything improves; schoolwork, reading, behavior, attitude, everything. Physical reading, reading aloud, writing by hand, they reinforce all I am trying to teach. The electronic mediums reinforce very little.
Drug is a good analogy. Some drugs, taken in limited quantities are very beneficial. The wrong drug or too much of any drug is very harmful.
You can still see teeth marks on the ones I didn't finish.
Young children do not have the capacity to handle technology.....it destroys their brains
Technology does not allow the brain to lay down the neural networks people need
It is destructive to allow children endless use of technology
Should airdrop these on parts of the world as a means of pacification, those that haven't signed themselves up already. Would only be fair and impartial to hamstring their youth in a similar manner.
10.1126/science.127.3294.315
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/127/3294/315
Plug-in drug.
8 years is a good time to do it, I think. But my 2 year old will spell out words on a keyboard. Won’t touch a crayon, pen or pencil.
It’s strange, but I’m working with it. The fact that my 2 year old (2 tomorrow, actually) is spelling words is a testament to _something_.
“The wrong drug or too much of any drug is very harmful.”
How anyone fails to see that this kind of technology is, ‘all by design’ is beyond me.
Look at how much simple Television has hypnotized the Unwashed Masses..for decades!
And now we talk about Trump being the ‘master’ of Social Media? Just like 0bama was...’back in the day’ of 8 short years ago?
Those who wish to control us are just moving on to bigger and better things.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my bunker...packing shotgun shells and working on my Manifesto. ;)
...nerdgasm....
Yes, I know where my towel is.
“All of our problems come down to ONE SINGLE THING. Democrats.”
Nope. Lazy parents. People are so damned lethargic these days they don’t even discipline their crumb crunchers.
That’s OK, though, the cops can just shoot them later when as adults they throw their lethal temper tantrums. Just had a friend last August do just that. Shot a temperamental kid that drew a gun because he didn’t want to be told what to do. Dead kid. So, society can just go ahead and let their kids grow up without any self discipline; we’ll just shoot them later.
I can see it with my students. The ones with behavior problems, in particular, cannot keep their phones tucked away. They sneak them out every second they can to play repetitive games, and if you try to take them away, now you are in a confrontation with an angry teen who is often bigger than you and has no self control whatsoever.
I’ve seen that with adolescents. Absolute addicts, refuse to do anything but their tablets/iphones or whatever they have. Addicts. Don’t want to “do” anything.
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