How to Raise a Scientist in the Xbox Age

Re:How to Raise a Scientist in the Xbox Age by TeMPOraL on Thursday December 17, 2015 @01:30PM (#10753305)

You have to accept that kids will spend a lot of time doing stupid shit. That's the part of learning experience. But at some point there may come a moment when a kid starts to wonder how to make stupid shit like what they saw, and there is the opportunity for them to learn creative/technical stuff. But they won't get that chance with hard, strict limits - then there's only time to watch.

BTW. I personally wouldn't discount even the educational value of stupid YouTube videos. Kids pull a lot more out of media than adults do. We see just a funny clip, but for a kid it's a way to learn a new language, learn new phrases of the native language, learn some culture, etc.

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Re:How to Raise a Scientist in the Xbox Age by lfowles on Thursday December 17, 2015 @05:21PM (#10755021)

> But at some point there may come a moment when a kid starts to wonder how to make stupid shit like what they saw

My journey in the past decade has roughly been "stupid shit", "how does that stupid shit work?", "why am I consuming the stupid shit when my peers are clearly capable of creating it?"

The biggest leap was realizing that it was _my peers_ creating much of this, so it was feasible for me to do the same!

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