No, this isn’t a call for help or a desperate plea for attention. Now that the Mac Mini is out, my life has reason and purpose.
Forty-four years ago, someone wrote an article in some obscure magazine (well, obscure to me, at least) about what life would be like in the year 2000. That was a long time from then, 39 years to be exact, so the “future” seemed a lifetime of technology away.
It is a pretty interesting read, really. A lot of technological forecasts and predictions, some of which may actually exist now in some form or other. But given the relative slow advancement of technology in the last 39 years (I did say relative), some still seem pretty unlikely, even 39 years from the year 2005.
Our children will learn from TV, recorders and teaching machines.
Ha, ha ha, that’s funn–oh wait, they already do. Is that supposed to be a good thing?
Yeah, the question is what they learn from such media….
I think it’s good, *with* good parenting. As a surrogate babysitter, No.
The thing is, I see children getting smarter and smarter at younger ages. With toys that repeat the alphabet, or do basic match problems, it allows them to learn things that would drive an adult insane to try to duplicate. You try singing the alphabet over and over and over… to a 2 year old.
As a byproduct they tend to mature faster which may or may not be good.
It was just funny to me to think about what TV was like in 1961…primarily for entertainment only and you know few households had one.
For that reason, it’s understandable that TV as an educational tool would have been a technological advancement.
TV does teach our kids, in good ways and bad, and balancing that is a tough job for any parent. My son only watches children’s programming on public broadcasting.
And yes, sometimes it is used as surrogate babysitter — just show me any parent who doesn’t. That’s not to say we’re not around, but for those couple of hours a day, our children enjoy some entertaining education and we get a break from them.