[ExI] I don't understand students: help !

Anna Taylor femmechakra at yahoo.ca
Sun Jan 4 08:33:49 UTC 2009


Funny how easy it is to make a joke.  The issue is still in regard.  The issue is whether technology is causing children to be less sociable.  Anybody have any opinions as opposed to snard remarks.

Just curious
Anna:)


--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Kevin H <kevin.l.holmes at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kevin H <kevin.l.holmes at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] I don't understand students: help !
> To: femmechakra at yahoo.ca, "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Received: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 4:16 PM
> In my opinion, the school and classroom isn't the great
> platform for
> socializing children as it's been cracked up to be. 
> Children regularly
> divide up into clicks, establish pecking orders and
> hierarchies, and this is
> a *result* of having individuals forced into the same area.
>  We see exactly
> the same thing occur in prisons.
> Socializing needs to occur on a *voluntary* basis.  But, in
> the meantime,
> these secondary goals tend to get in the way of the primary
> aim of
> education: attaining knowledge.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Anna Taylor
> <femmechakra at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Bryan Bishop wrote Sat Dec 20 02:29:24 UTC 2008:
> >
> > >>There have been many proposals on this list
> and in the past from other
> > >>sources for all sorts of community learning
> centers, libraries to get
> > >>more involved in new forms of archiving
> information to be displayed to
> > >>youngsters, fablabs as a truly humanitarian
> education (*do* stuff,
> > >>act, that sort of thing), etc. I also think
> this falls in line with
> > >>some of the proposals regarding switching over
> to teachers competing
> > >>for specific students, which our Hungarian
> list subscribers might be
> > >>able to comment more on (m1n3r?).
> >
> > I wrote On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Anna Taylor
> <femmechakra at
> > yahoo.ca>
> >
> > >Really? What happens to the social aspect of it?
> Students today as I see
> > >them are not very sociable and you want to make
> computers more unclosed >in
> > a 4 wall room? Doesn't that make it more secluded?
> How are are people
> > >supposed to learn if not surrounded by different
> people?
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong supporter of
> self-education with the use
> > of technology and I don't see anything wrong with
> scholars searching for
> > specific students threw the use of technology. I
> wonder about the idea of
> > technology alienating children.  How a computer can
> become more familiar
> > than another human being?  Is this what I would teach
> my child if I wanted
> > to bear children?  Imho...It's one thing to look
> at it from the point of
> > single/married as opposed to looking at the point of
> view of family, I'm
> > just curious to get some point of views.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Anna
> >
> > PS As I recently just started again to teach young
> children in public
> > schools how to dance and have to admit the experience
> wasn't on my top ten
> > list, I am simply asking for advice.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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