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Thursday 29 October 2015

Let the children use technologies...also!

Try to keep children away from television, mobile phones and computers is not only absolutely inglorious, as will isolate them from the group of colleagues and friends. You drive them away from their present and, worse, their future.



But to manage this situation, there are two words -  ALSO and COMMON SENSE.

This post is about the ALSO.

A newspaper clipping, which can not find in my files (dispaiiiir!!!), reported one special news. In 1904, at United States, a doctor said that to ride a motor bike at 10km/h was dangerous! This was because, at this breakneck speed, the person opened his mouth, was filled with air and burst ... !!!

And what was said when the film came! Hum..one dark room, a bright screen...people would be blind! Or photography, that steal the soul of the photographed ...

Just to laugh, watch this little movie that shows Charlot and the fear of man in relation to the machine.


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This is the "normal" attitude of the human being facing the technological novelty, whatever it may be. Distrust, fear, dark future ...

And that's why, every day, there are news, studies and reports about awful things that can happen to anyone who uses the television, mobile phone, microwave, Facebook and who knows what else! Even our prestigious Portuguese sociologist Antonio Barreto wrote against the mobile phone in the 90s. Seriously?

The truth is that new technologies are not only inevitable, now and in the future, but also stimulate our brain completely differently from the "old days".

And without dwell too much on this evidence, I refer you to one great book, 2005, Steven Johnson, "EVERYTHING BAD IS GOOD  FOR YOU - How video games, TV and Internet are ultimately making us smarter ". Here you will find the challenge of thinking ahead.

BUT ...
if the kids have to know how to use the technologies sooner the better, as with learning a second language (the sooner, the more impregnated in their "skin") also have to know that the water does not born in the taps and the chicken is not that thing with its legs open at supermarket shelves ...

That is, the child with his unrivaled potential has to be developed and stimulated in all directions without radicalism or nostalgia.

The photo below put alternatively, Technology and Nature.




But this is a false choice. The Technology is not opposed to Nature. It is not "Technology or Nature". It really is "Technology and also Nature."

In the field of Civilization and Culture, there are many other examples of false choices. We have to be vigilant.´

In the next post, I will discuss the COMMON SENSE accompanying this ALSO. And I will be even more boring ...



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