Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good

Re:Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good by clarry on Sunday March 24, 2019 @08:50AM (#19476044)

> What will earn him more money in later life, though - stacking bricks, or using a computer?

I'm pretty sure we recently saw a study that showed a lot of kids being tech illiterate despite growing with and regularly using a bunch of gadgets.

Turns out playing with a screen doesn't teach you computers.

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Re:Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good by jimktrains2 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @09:44AM (#19476292)

I like to use the analogy: just because you can drive a car doesn't mean you can fix a car.

Honestly, some people just treat computers as magic despite using them every day and having it explained what it's doing. We don't need to expose kids to computers more -- it's literally impossible not to -- we need to get them to -- or not squash -- their desire to ask 'why', 'how', and 'how can this be changed'.

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