It's extremley interesting. I'd like to think that while much of the games and television today do place children who are placed in front of them in a situation where they do not have to think at all if they don't want to, it also can give them a wonderfull platform from which to take off from in the development of their own imagination. The key is that the child should be motivated not only to not be lazy with their minds and to leave that platform by developing their own thoughts and new ideas about what they've seen, but also to develop their own style by not letting the places from which they've taken off from be fully controlling their thoughts.
Imagination is extremley lacking in the world at the moment as it is. Think about how many movies you have heard of since... I dunno, since 2000, that have been based on original ideas. Not on a book. Not on a true story. Not on a comic book. Not on an older movie. I mean based on an original idea. There aren't many. And, they generaly are poorly developed, as if no one wanted to help them. Original ideas are not well supported in the world at all. It's a shame.
At least we have the hope of starting completley over someday. May originality creep forth on that day from every human left. Woot.
Oh. My. God. You are like so ahead of the times right now. Blasphemous, I am.
I read the article. I thought yours much better. The whole concept of technology and maturity is definitely interesting and would make our ancestors harshly shake their heads in disgust as us whilst we slap away at our keyboards.
I have read an incredibly good book that brings out how the school systems can learn from the ways that video games "teach" their young players not only how to play the game, but also to become more and more skilled at it over time. It was a very clear, well presented, and well thought through case.
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It's extremley interesting. I'd like to think that while much of the games and television today do place children who are placed in front of them in a situation where they do not have to think at all if they don't want to, it also can give them a wonderfull platform from which to take off from in the development of their own imagination. The key is that the child should be motivated not only to not be lazy with their minds and to leave that platform by developing their own thoughts and new ideas about what they've seen, but also to develop their own style by not letting the places from which they've taken off from be fully controlling their thoughts.
Imagination is extremley lacking in the world at the moment as it is. Think about how many movies you have heard of since... I dunno, since 2000, that have been based on original ideas. Not on a book. Not on a true story. Not on a comic book. Not on an older movie. I mean based on an original idea. There aren't many. And, they generaly are poorly developed, as if no one wanted to help them. Original ideas are not well supported in the world at all. It's a shame.
At least we have the hope of starting completley over someday. May originality creep forth on that day from every human left. Woot.
Oh. My. God. You are like so ahead of the times right now.
Blasphemous, I am.
I read the article. I thought yours much better. The whole concept of technology and maturity is definitely interesting and would make our ancestors harshly shake their heads in disgust as us whilst we slap away at our keyboards.
Sigh.
I have read an incredibly good book that brings out how the school systems can learn from the ways that video games "teach" their young players not only how to play the game, but also to become more and more skilled at it over time. It was a very clear, well presented, and well thought through case.
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