Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Study: Young kids better with tech than 'life skills'

I found this article online and I found it really creepy. I know we are in social media class and we supposed to look at the positive sides of technology and worlds innovations. However, it bring some concerns...

According to studies 58% of young children can play a computer game and 53% can ride a bike. Well should we consider it as something positive, or negative? We could think, it is good because the technology now days evolves so fast that kids need to know how to operate in this technology based world. But on the other hand should we let kids forget about old physical activities and games that were common when we were young?

What do you think? How we could make it work both ways and make it fair for both sides of personal evolution?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-20029002-238.html?tag=cnetRiver

1 comment:

Oksana Kirichenko said...

I agree that brings some concerns.It reminds me - when I was doing the reading for my "Environmental Filmmaking class" yesterday, I was struck by how a few years ago people were learning nature just by being out there, watching the caterpillars, listening, exploring and now we learn most of these things from environmental movies or the Web..