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Children now have better access to information and more of it but it also requires less human interaction.

In your opinions is this a positive or negative for children?
 
I suspect it's going to be a negative. A lot of things we need to know how to do, often simple things, are being subsumed by "smart" technology. Instead of knowing how to do it yourself, they come to rely on technology to do it for them.
 
Mixed bag as children now communicate through digital technology, internet and cell phones especially. Our grandchildren use it both to communicate and meet up. Personally I've never been a phone person mine is only on when cycling or the wife and I are on separate journeys. I do like the computer for email, news and looking up stuff. I find it hard to imagine my mom using it. We roamed about all day after chores or whatnot and only came home when evening came. Life was different in many ways. In a sense there was a kind of freedom unknown today.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9273128/
 
midcan5 said:
Mixed bag as children now communicate through digital technology, internet and cell phones especially. Our grandchildren use it both to communicate and meet up. Personally I've never been a phone person mine is only on when cycling or the wife and I are on separate journeys. I do like the computer for email, news and looking up stuff. I find it hard to imagine my mom using it. We roamed about all day after chores or whatnot and only came home when evening came. Life was different in many ways. In a sense there was a kind of freedom unknown today.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9273128/
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Some personal examples.

I took one of the grandkids on side work with me. I told him to drive the truck rather than me doing it. I told him the route verbally (the address was about 40 miles away). He wanted to use a map app on his phone because he couldn't grasp my verbal instructions and had no idea really were the highways and roads I mentioned were relative to where he was.

I have had to make it a rule for my hired help that they put their phones in their vehicles while working at a site. They become a nuisance and distraction for them, taking them away from productive work.

Kids have become welded to their smartphones, yet they really can't make use of them. Another grandkid wanted to know about cheaper hotels in San Diego near one of the beaches. I, having spent a lot of time in San Diego courtesy of the Navy, suggested some things. She became flustered because she couldn't translate my general information on beaches and areas of San Diego into results on cheap hotels. She seemed to expect the search engine, whatever she was using to do it all for her.
 
The internet is the single biggest thing in the last 25 years. You can find out anything you want in seconds when you used to have to go get a book.

It allows instant and cheap communication to people and places you used to not be able to afford to contact.

It's the slickest thing since sliced bread.

Yet in spite of all of this it is a net negative.

The world was a better place before it.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Some personal examples.

I took one of the grandkids on side work with me. I told him to drive the truck rather than me doing it. I told him the route verbally (the address was about 40 miles away). He wanted to use a map app on his phone because he couldn't grasp my verbal instructions and had no idea really were the highways and roads I mentioned were relative to where he was.

I have had to make it a rule for my hired help that they put their phones in their vehicles while working at a site. They become a nuisance and distraction for them, taking them away from productive work.

Kids have become welded to their smartphones, yet they really can't make use of them. Another grandkid wanted to know about cheaper hotels in San Diego near one of the beaches. I, having spent a lot of time in San Diego courtesy of the Navy, suggested some things. She became flustered because she couldn't translate my general information on beaches and areas of San Diego into results on cheap hotels. She seemed to expect the search engine, whatever she was using to do it all for her.
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maybe the machines are bad.

DId you ever see the terminator movie series?

nothing is inevitable. there is no fate.

unconditional techno-positivism is for fools.
 
Technology can be a great addition to a child's life. The almost unlimited knowledge at their fingertips is unlike anything in history.

At the same time, they need supervision while doing it. There are many other things that will grab their attention.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
Children now have better access to information and more of it but it also requires less human interaction.

In your opinions is this a positive or negative for children?
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We took our daughter in for her annual checkup with the pediatrician. This was almost a decade ago and she was 4 years old at the time.

The pre appt interview consisted of a bunch of questions a few had to do with reading and writing and some with how much electronics time per day.

The 20 something lady helping us read the answers and was very confused. She asked us how our child learned how to read without having a computer, phone or tablet?

She seemed disbelieving when we mentioned books.

And it's only gotten worse since then.
 
Joe said:
The internet is the single biggest thing in the last 25 years. You can find out anything you want in seconds when you used to have to go get a book.

It allows instant and cheap communication to people and places you used to not be able to afford to contact.

It's the slickest thing since sliced bread.

Yet in spite of all of this it is a net negative.

The world was a better place before it.
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While the internet can be a useful tool, finding what you really need on it can be a daunting task. For example, the wife wants to remuddle our kitchen. I'm going to have to redo the lighting. I lucked out and got a number of catalogues--those book-like things from the stone age-- that have every sort of lighting fixture in them. It took me less than 15 minutes to find and make several selections for a first pass. Doing the same on the internet would have taken several hours of trying to parse through pages of crap I didn't even want to look at because the search engine was so sloppy.

I can often find out more from a book or three than I could ever get off the internet.

Or, do this. Go to some fast-food place these days and pay with cash. If you get a teen to 20-something cashier they can't make change. They are dumbfounded you are paying in cash.
 
WinterBorn said:
I beg to differ. My grandkids got to watch a giraffe give birth. Almost the entire sum of mankind's knowledge is available at their fingertips.

Are there bad things online? Sure. But they can be avoided and the risk seriously mitigated.
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and their kids will have chips in their brains and Be incapable of independent thought.

go team dummy.
 
Blackwater Lunchbreak said:
I don't believe so.

the chip exists too.

elon has is ready for your curious great grandchildren.
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The fact that it exists does not mean they will be inserted into children's brains for control.

Likely it is a process in the treatment for brain injuries and the like.


And to call the entire internet "evil" is ridiculous. To compare a handful of internet crimes with the positive effects of the internet for millions of people is just insanity.

I have 4 grown children who were online. No chips yet. You?
 
WinterBorn said:
The fact that it exists does not mean they will be inserted into children's brains for control.

Likely it is a process in the treatment for brain injuries and the like.


And to call the entire internet "evil" is ridiculous. To compare a handful of internet crimes with the positive effects of the internet for millions of people is just insanity.

I have 4 grown children who were online. No chips yet. You?
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just like the internet isn't being used for control?

you're either a liar or a delusional idiot.

and kathianne's a cunt.
 
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