Children today are born into a society where vibrant colors are flooding their mind at such an early age through television, commercials, and even computer screens that the child's brain becomes over stimulated before it even gets a chance to develop the concept and abstract ideas of shapes and less vibrant colors than technology tends to intensify. Thus a child born in the age of technology is forced to maintain a constant level of high intensity and over stimulate the brain, as the child gets older the intensity levels and over simulation of the brain must increase or else the child will become bored for not having the brain have to keep up with such an intense pace of learning on a visual and colorful level.
I am old fashioned. I believe in reading books and I believe that children need to learn on a normal lower intense level than technology allows and insists on teaching children. I do not think that everyone has to expose children to technology at an early age for their cognitive skills cannot handle the over load of images and colors and make sense of them at that age. Children should be exposed to technology later in life when they are better equipped to handle it on a cognitive and more physical level. Children should have books read to them at an early age and as they get older the Leap Frog books that help them learn to read is a brilliant and positive technological advancement that I am willing to support. For I do not agree with digital literacy or other forms of technology that tend to take place or books or writing by hand. For all children are taught to write not on a computer key board but with a pencil, crayon, pen, and paper. For writing is a physical development that children go through and their writing improves and changes as they get older and write more and more. By the age of 9 children are taught to write in script and the writing process begins all over again, and all of this takes place outside of the technological world.
Technology has changed the way students read and write for there are blogs, chat rooms, e-books, articles on line, text messaging, and on and on it goes. However, no student even in this day and age with technology rising, can escape the fundamentals of learning to read and write and those ways begin with paper, pen, and a hard covered (or soft covered) book.
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I cannot agree with what you said anymore. Kids today have completely been brainwashed with computers, video games and other electronics. I coached little league this year and from when I played to now is so much different. I know every generation says that about their younger generation but I am serious. My point is that while the summer heat was blazing down on us most of the kids complained saying they rather be playing Halo or checking out their MySpace. Without a doubt that is why this country's adolescents are so obese.
Also cell phones are a complete success for the corporate world. All they keep doing is brainwashing our students with great phone plans and picture/recording phones. Mostly importantly the text messaging has created a whole new headache for our English teachers. I read that the students are using "Text Talk" to write their reports in school. This is why I personally am scared for my years of retirement because these generations to come, our children, we see a whole new world of technology and our intelligence could only get worse. Books, Writing, Reading, could be a thing of the passed. Listening and Visual learning could be our only Multiple Intelligence we have left...not good!!!
I think this leads us to dealing with what is presented and making it work. In a physical education setting many schools have incorporated the DDR game into their lessons as a workout. As far as reading and writing I don't think books can ever "go out of style" and no one can fight the fact that there are countless information sources, game, etc. that are available on the computer. Technology is only going to get more and more advanced, not saying that is a good thing in all aspects but we do need to make the most of it.
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