Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of widening digital divide
by bin_bash on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:33AM
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yeah it just looks different. Instead of watercolors they're spending more time in minecraft and roblox. Are those worse for kids? It's too early to tell but I certainly doubt it.
In my experience kids still love doing watercolors too.
Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of widening digital divide
by MaximumYComb on Friday March 12, 2021 @04:53PM
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My daughter does art daily. She also builds intricate cities in Minecraft. It blows my mind how detailed a 7 year old could get.
I suspect building in 3D is going to provide some spatial benefits that drawing doesn't.
There is no way that the internet is solely to blame for a child's creativity and imagination dying. Think about the billions and billions of creative projects on the internet.
I'm afraid that what you've done with that line is sort of romanticize some fictional past where kids were kids and men were men and women were women. There was always something that people tried to blame the death of creativity on - when I was a kid it was TV. When my grandfather was a kid, it was reading and books.
While I agree that "social" media is destroying many social conventions, I absolutely disagree that the internet is to blame for killing childhood creativity.