30 years later and I still haven't changed Mytho, I've just learned how to get away with it.You LAD, you.
we went to watch Octopussy at the cinema, blowed up condoms and patted them down onto the heads of other cinema goers from the balcony we were sitting on
Really? Are they no longer teaching it at school? All my older kids can read them and my 6 year old is learning at current.
I'm not concerned about a decline in 'intelligence' among the youngest generations, mainly because I don't think there is one, and mainly because a good deal of what is thought to be intelligence by the general public is nothing of the sort.
What concerns me, and what I do believe we are seeing, is a decline in curiosity--more specifically a decline in the desire to look beyond the walls of one's own life.
Yeah, I have seen that personally when I was a school teacher. With most of the kids, it was all but impossible to engage them in anything. They were simply not interested in anything, and any practical demonstrations were simply opportunities to goof off a bit.
You know you have a problem when you show them how to make frickin' gunpowder and light up fireworks in the class, and half of them just sit there and stare at it with bored eyes, and the other half take the opportunity to go crazy.
No - the clocks are there for them to see. They will be in folk's houses, in the street, on buildings etc. They are there, but its just easier for them to look at their phones. Plus if they don't wear a watch they will have to look at their phones. It must be what they have got used to and the parents have probably let this happen to an extent. So although the clocks are physically there they just don't "see" them.They are still teaching it, but the kids nowadays seldom see any analog clocks anywhere outside of class, so they don't get any practice reading them.
Maybe it's a lack of interaction with parents - maybe this is what it all comes down to. It's easier for parents to let their kids play on electronic gadgets all the time than take the trouble to educate them about the world around them. Education shouldn't be the job of the teacher 100% of the time. There's too much knowledge for even the best teacher to impart.Something happens--something.
My daughter has just turned three and is curious about everything. She brings me pieces of fluff from the floor and wants to know where it came from!
There's something that seems to take hold of some children before they reach double digits that just 'turns them off' because 75% of the older children of our friends are phone-addicted zombies that don't know (for example) that chickens can fly or that Africa is not a country.
Fingers crossed and all that.
That's bad isn't it? That's the kind of thing we'd have been excited about.Yeah, I have seen that personally when I was a school teacher. With most of the kids, it was all but impossible to engage them in anything. They were simply not interested in anything, and any practical demonstrations were simply opportunities to goof off a bit.
You know you have a problem when you show them how to make frickin' gunpowder and light up fireworks in the class, and half of them just sit there and stare at it with bored eyes, and the other half take the opportunity to go crazy.
Maybe it's a lack of interaction with parents - maybe this is what it all comes down to. It's easier for parents to let their kids play on electronic gadgets all the time than take the trouble to educate them about the world around them. Education shouldn't be the job of the teacher 100% of the time. There's too much knowledge for even the best teacher to impart.
You're right! I noticed the other day, a woman pushing a pushchair, head on one side with mobile phone held there between her head and her shoulder (no doubt developing some kind of neck problem) whilst ignoring the child. Why does everybody have to be in constant contact with everybody else, discussing the minutiae of their lives all the time? You see folk in restaurants as well where the whole family is glued to their own mobile phone. They should be discussing stuff as a family!!! It winds me up!My typical parent/child sighting is of a babbling primary school kid being dragged down the road by a stone-faced mum glued to her ‘phone, grunting an occasional monosyllabic response.
It was reported in the national papers recently that one school now displays posters near its entrance reading “Greet your child with a smile, not a mobile.”
The next generation will have the social skills and conversational deftness of broccoli.
maximus otter
I can't imagine what all these people have to talk about that's so urgent it can't wait for later. Before the days of mobile phones, people managed just fine.You're right! I noticed the other day, a woman pushing a pushchair, head on one side with mobile phone held there between her head and her shoulder (no doubt developing some kind of neck problem) whilst ignoring the child. Why does everybody have to be in constant contact with everybody else, discussing the minutiae of their lives all the time? You see folk in restaurants as well where the whole family is glued to their own mobile phone. They should be discussing stuff as a family!!! It winds me up!
Nobody has said the smartphone or computer is evil. There are tremendous benefits from both. What we have said - if you care to read the posts properly - is that they can encourage over-dependency to the exclusion of independent thinking.Wow - a group of people discussing the evils of smartphones and digital communication on an online message board...
Maybe if you all went and spoke to your families instead of typing on here etc etc etc
I have no children, I'm allowed to be here.
I noticed the other day, a woman pushing a pushchair, head on one side with mobile phone held there between her head and her shoulder (no doubt developing some kind of neck problem) whilst ignoring the child.
Nobody has said the smartphone or computer is evil. There are tremendous benefits from both. What we have said - if you care to read the posts properly - is that they can encourage over-dependency to the exclusion of independent thinking.
Oh - sorry I thought you WERE being serious! My mistake. Oops.Well....I wasn't being entirely serious....
But I do think it's wrong to assume that young people using phones constantly is a bad thing. It's not a passive activity, it's far more interactive than spending hours watching TV. It can be negative, but there are positives too - they are potentially communicating with a much wider group of people; creating their own videos, blogs, photography, music; making new connections...
Like I say, all of these can have negative aspects...but I was a curious child, and if I'd had a pocket window to the entire breadth of recorded human knowledge and culture, I would have been glued to it too.
they are potentially communicating with a much wider group of people;
Oh - sorry I thought you WERE being serious! My mistake. Oops.
Well....I wasn't being entirely serious....
But I do think it's wrong to assume that young people using phones constantly is a bad thing. It's not a passive activity, it's far more interactive than spending hours watching TV. It can be negative, but there are positives too - they are potentially communicating with a much wider group of people; creating their own videos, blogs, photography, music; making new connections...
Like I say, all of these can have negative aspects...but I was a curious child, and if I'd had a pocket window to the entire breadth of recorded human knowledge and culture, I would have been glued to it too.
Yes but deprive them of this phone and they can't do anything. We've already agreed that telling the time is beyond them. I expect adding up and map reading is as well. It's the dependency on the phone that is the problem.Well....I wasn't being entirely serious....
But I do think it's wrong to assume that young people using phones constantly is a bad thing. It's not a passive activity, it's far more interactive than spending hours watching TV. It can be negative, but there are positives too - they are potentially communicating with a much wider group of people; creating their own videos, blogs, photography, music; making new connections...
Like I say, all of these can have negative aspects...but I was a curious child, and if I'd had a pocket window to the entire breadth of recorded human knowledge and culture, I would have been glued to it too.
A few months ago someone brought his young daughter to the rifle range l attend. After her turn shooting she went to the seats at the back of the range, retrieved a book and sat reading intently, awaiting her next detail. I could have hugged her, except l didn’t want to end up on a Register for ten years...
maximus otter
I remember being told at school (in the 80s) "you won't have a calculator with you all the time you know!"