Re:Badger or Bulbasaur – have children lost touch with nature?
by lifeisstillgood on Monday October 02, 2017 @07:27AM
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Childhood is training for adulthood.
It is almost certain that software and
Back when children were made to read en mass there were panics about them spending too much time in doors and not playing outside. When TV came along, too much time watching TV not reading nooks. Now Ipads.
I agree - there needs to be a balance. humans are designed to be roaming outdoors. but 10,000 years ago ones life and prosperity depended on correctly identifying edible vs poisonous plants. Today a kids life / prosperity depends on much more complex social and technological skills - and playing Pokémon with other kids will help improve both social and technological skills.
Don't leave them to be pulled about by evil corporations in mindless adverts, but do encourage modern play as well as other things.
PS
Tooling in this case matters. I can easily find OSS tools to run a firewall, less to audit web usage (netflow etc) but I want to be able to audit how much TV was watched (where is the API output from Netflix let alone from a damn TV aerial). How do I get a report off my iphone saying how many minutes (hours) I was looking at facebook? HN?
In order to make good choices we need good tools - and those tools are anti the interests of the peddlars - so I really want OSS to step up and take its place. but I am not sure how tractable the problem is.
Back when children were made to read en mass there were panics about them spending too much time in doors and not playing outside. When TV came along, too much time watching TV not reading nooks. Now Ipads.
I agree - there needs to be a balance. humans are designed to be roaming outdoors. but 10,000 years ago ones life and prosperity depended on correctly identifying edible vs poisonous plants. Today a kids life / prosperity depends on much more complex social and technological skills - and playing Pokémon with other kids will help improve both social and technological skills.
Don't leave them to be pulled about by evil corporations in mindless adverts, but do encourage modern play as well as other things.
PS Tooling in this case matters. I can easily find OSS tools to run a firewall, less to audit web usage (netflow etc) but I want to be able to audit how much TV was watched (where is the API output from Netflix let alone from a damn TV aerial). How do I get a report off my iphone saying how many minutes (hours) I was looking at facebook? HN?
In order to make good choices we need good tools - and those tools are anti the interests of the peddlars - so I really want OSS to step up and take its place. but I am not sure how tractable the problem is.