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<blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 4869941" data-attributes="member: 40359"><p>Just to continue the "kids these days" discussion, I wonder if part of the issue of "I'll just look it up" attitude is a shift away from consumption to production? Between a truly awe-inspiring amount of readily available information online and the tools to allow easy content production and sharing, I'm thinking it is having a major cultural impact on children. Back when I was growing up in the 80's entertainment you could interact with (from D&D to Atari) was just beginning. The majority of the entertainment and information I experienced was fed to me - TV, movies, the set of encyclopedias my parents bought, or for really big matters - a trip to the local library. But all of it was static information that was not only presented to me, but seemed so far from anything I could produce. I still remember the one afternoon in the mid 90's when I first saw a web page and the code behind it. What astounded me the most actually was how easy it was to have pictures and text together on the computer screen, and link to other pages! I had visions of making "Choose Your Own Adventure" books on the world wide web. I was a senior in college and something that simple was amazing to me.</p><p></p><p>Even further, for my parents, interactive entertainment was seeing the neighbor kids were home. Heck, growing up for them the "TV schedule" was the times when shows were even broadcast, the rest of the time was a test pattern.</p><p></p><p>My kids however are leaps and bounds past us. My 9 year old daughter maintains several websites. She's even made several movies with iLife on our Mac. All of them (even our youngest who can't even read yet) prefer interactive websites to watching TV. They would rather spend an hour on Webkinz where they can <strong>interact and create</strong> than sit and stare at a TV show they can't do anything to. </p><p></p><p>So I can see that sort of attitude leading to not bothering to learn "facts" (after all, facts and information are trivial to find nowadays). It's a shift towards creating content and interacting with content than just being fed static information. It's pretty significantly different from how I was raised, and how my parents were raised. So if we're not careful, their education might not account for this different mindset and it's much harder to teach them. We also have to make sure it doesn't swing too far and we wind up with the students mentioned above who not only don't have much factual foundation but even begin to lose curiosity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kenmarable, post: 4869941, member: 40359"] Just to continue the "kids these days" discussion, I wonder if part of the issue of "I'll just look it up" attitude is a shift away from consumption to production? Between a truly awe-inspiring amount of readily available information online and the tools to allow easy content production and sharing, I'm thinking it is having a major cultural impact on children. Back when I was growing up in the 80's entertainment you could interact with (from D&D to Atari) was just beginning. The majority of the entertainment and information I experienced was fed to me - TV, movies, the set of encyclopedias my parents bought, or for really big matters - a trip to the local library. But all of it was static information that was not only presented to me, but seemed so far from anything I could produce. I still remember the one afternoon in the mid 90's when I first saw a web page and the code behind it. What astounded me the most actually was how easy it was to have pictures and text together on the computer screen, and link to other pages! I had visions of making "Choose Your Own Adventure" books on the world wide web. I was a senior in college and something that simple was amazing to me. Even further, for my parents, interactive entertainment was seeing the neighbor kids were home. Heck, growing up for them the "TV schedule" was the times when shows were even broadcast, the rest of the time was a test pattern. My kids however are leaps and bounds past us. My 9 year old daughter maintains several websites. She's even made several movies with iLife on our Mac. All of them (even our youngest who can't even read yet) prefer interactive websites to watching TV. They would rather spend an hour on Webkinz where they can [b]interact and create[/b] than sit and stare at a TV show they can't do anything to. So I can see that sort of attitude leading to not bothering to learn "facts" (after all, facts and information are trivial to find nowadays). It's a shift towards creating content and interacting with content than just being fed static information. It's pretty significantly different from how I was raised, and how my parents were raised. So if we're not careful, their education might not account for this different mindset and it's much harder to teach them. We also have to make sure it doesn't swing too far and we wind up with the students mentioned above who not only don't have much factual foundation but even begin to lose curiosity. [/QUOTE]
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