LOL!
Posted on 03/17/2018 6:29:36 PM PDT by Simon Green
“This week ran into a special ed teacher who told me the kids with more screen kids have a lower IQ. Yikes.”
But which way does the causality run? Are they dumber because of screen time, or do they accumulate screen time because they are dumb?
One of his very best.
Is valjar really a man?
Valerie Jarrett sure as heck looks reptilian.
What is a shame is that neither case has to be true. Kids have access to a virtual library of knowledge at their fingertips.
A massive tool. For good or bad. Like guns, it's not the guns, it's how you use them.
Holy crap. Warn us next time. LOL
I remember fifty years ago SCIENCE AND MECHANICS magazine had a series of articles on how the Russian men into space photos were fake.
“A massive tool. For good or bad. Like guns, it’s not the guns, it’s how you use them.”
Perhaps I’m deficient, but I had to learn how to learn. I wouldn’t have been able to educate myself from the Internet when I was young.
Maybe it’s asking too much of most people. Maybe most young people need teachers.
Too bad our schools don’t have any.
YouTube, hrrrmph!
When I was a lad, if you wanted to see a reptilian you had do it in person!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon_(film)
https://www.space.com/34090-operation-avalanche-fake-moon-landing-film.html
Nor did they claim we faked it nine times. :^) Those lizard bastards must have taken control of the USSR!!!
IMHO, I think there’s a way to reach these young mush headed Conspiracy nuts.
For what it’s worth.
1. They are prone to believe they are not being told the truth by the Media, Gov’t, and corporations.
2. They are, for the most part, seeking the truth.
If we can carefully introduce the concept that it’s in fact the Left, the progressives, that are conspiring to keep the truth from them, their heads will explode if they are honest.
I understand that the last thing these nuts want is for their worldview to be overturned or even challenged. This is why they cut off any and all discussion from those with opposing views. They’ve moved beyond the killing the message, because they can’t, to killing the messenger.
I believe that a handful of very clever, anonymous messengers can craft a variety of themes/concepts that get these nuts to actually think and explore for the truth.
LOL!
I was not meaning to imply that young people should rely on the internet for all their educational needs. What a disaster that would be.
What I was trying to communicate was that children NOW have a virtual world library instantly available at their fingertips.
Instead of spending 2 hours going to a library and coming out with one book that they have to spend another 2 hours reading through to even see if it answers their questions, they can do it in 60 seconds on their smartphone or computer.
BUT... they have to be ASKING questions, which comes from being challenged by teachers.
I disagree with you on that statement.
You are born with the ability to learn.
But having the ability does not mean you necessarily use it.
A good teacher knows they cannot TEACH a child anything.
What they can do is encourage a child to LEARN (as you said).
“I disagree with you on that statement. You are born with the ability to learn.”
When we talk about Dunning Kruger around here, we’re usually talking about dummies thinking they are smart. However, there’s a flip side. “Conversely, highly competent individuals may erroneously assume that tasks easy for them to perform are also easy for other people to perform, or that other people will have a similar understanding of subjects that they themselves are well-versed in.”
Perhaps what you say is true for you, but maybe not for everyone. Or there might be a difference between having the innate ability to learn, and being able to put it into practice. Or maybe I’m using the wrong terminology to describe my personal experience.
When taught in the classroom, I was able to learn things like the multiplication tables and state capitols, but if someone had said to fourth-grade me, “There’s the library; go teach yourself geometry,” I wouldn’t have been able to do it. I’d have needed a teacher.
After the experience I describe as “learning how to learn,” I can teach myself anything that is not beyond my native intelligence. Smarter people can teach themselves things I can’t. Maybe that’s a capability that you have always had, but I had to learn it.
“I was not meaning to imply that young people should rely on the internet for all their educational needs.”
I did not intend to ascribe such an extreme position to you. Sorry if it came across that way.
After a certain point, though, it seems like we should be able to give a high-schooler a stack of books and tell him to come back in three months prepared for written and oral exams. Not in every case or for every subject, probably, but at least to some extent.
An adolescent still requires a certain amount of discipline and needs help in establishing purposeful habits.
“An adolescent still requires a certain amount of discipline and needs help in establishing purposeful habits.”
Most do. I should tell you about my oldest daughter some time.
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