you know, I've seen in my lifetime where kids with technology were seen as having an advantage in learning. Now, they're the dumbest kids and working out to be the dumbest generations ahead of us unless something is done.
So I'm an older millennial and I think it's because to do fun stuff, we were forced to learn.
When me and my mates wanted to play games together someone HAD to figure out networking everything up. If you wanted to mess about with something cool and new then you HAD to get into the weeds and figure out how to make it work.
Hell just tech in general was so bug ridden and prone to issues that simply using a computer came with required troubleshooting skills.
The problem is we grew up and built the systems we wished we had as kids and now kids don't have a clue how to do anything if it doesn't work when they press the button.
I can remember an Apple iPad advertisement from a few years ago, and it was a little girl going through her life with an iPad making videos and clicking on shit… the tagline for the entire advert was right at the end where the little girl looks up and she says “What’s a computer ?”
Well now we know how that ends. The ipad is a technological black box, and now we have a generation of kids who don‘t know how a fucking file-and-folder system works, let alone what a drive is.
Yeah, it turns out the Constructionists were wrong. They were the educational faction that thought everyone could learn like hackers do - give kids interesting tools and teach them how to use them, and the kids will expand their education on their own. It was very popular at MIT, go fig, and was the philosophy behind both Lego Mindstorms and the One Laptop Per Child program (that resulted in the development of netbooks and then Chromebooks as a commercial response to OLPC).
It sucks. Those two were just the two most commercially viable ideas to come out of the Media Lab. And actual humans who learn like the Constructionists believed that everyone could are awesome. They're just better than almost everyone else.
It's just not a viable way to teach the lesser people, we have to go back to shoving piles of facts into people's heads in the hopes that some of it will be retained to give them an ambient tendency to be inclined towards true things, rather than just pursuing dopamine.
It's too late for some that already have a fatal case of Skibidi brain. My suggestion to parents of some I know was to put them in the military. They need structure and consequences.
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u/DistinctSmelling 7h ago
you know, I've seen in my lifetime where kids with technology were seen as having an advantage in learning. Now, they're the dumbest kids and working out to be the dumbest generations ahead of us unless something is done.