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A thing I'm seeing with increasing frequency from the younger members of ou…
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And the worst part, for me, is that so much of this propaganda is being deliver…
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We aren't here on this green and blue and increasingly hot orb for any part…
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Now, you may be asking yourself 'Why would there be a bunch of propaganda t…
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It's like, suddenly, the world around us is full of millions of microcults,…
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You couple that with the way that so many folks (my age and older, certainly, b…
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I feel like that last bit needs to be unpacked. I work with kids on a volunteer…
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@ajroach42 Oh, fascinating perspective! I was aware of the rise of 'microcu…
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A lot of the kids I work with are autistic or have some other kind of learning …
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I'm in a kind of unique position, because I'm not a teacher.I'm mos…
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The first thing I want to point out is that every parent tells me some variatio…
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Over the years, I've done some work with some people who were addicted to v…
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The tech of choice for most of these kids is YouTube. That's what they want…
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When they aren't on YouTube, they're on whatever slot machine mechanics…
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I've been struggling, lately, because most of the tools and techniques that…
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When I was 8, I'd have rather done literally anything else than to sit quie…
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At first I thought I might be imagining things, so I started talking to parents…
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But then I pointed out the trends. I pointed out how these kids would rather do…
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The effort / reward ratio is all out of balance. Reading is too much work for t…
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So we have a generation of kids growing up with a severe and frequently life im…
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That last bit "alienating them from their own decision making" is the…
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Most of the above to say this: This is not an old man yelling at the sky. This …
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Technology isn't a force for food or a force for evil. It's a force mul…
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So what's to be done? Intention. Right now, most people's relationship …
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I'm not suggesting that we all turn off youtube and facebook and abandon wi…
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So I'm working with a couple of professionals on the psychology/childhood d…
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I wish that I could wrap this in a neat little bow and say "here's a 5…
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Oh, and as a side note, I've spent most of this thread talking about kids a…
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@ajroach42 Yeah, the forces at play in society are intentionally driving us all…
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@ajroach42 Maybe start by teaching them to doubt / question everything? (Even y…
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@bass4dking honestly I don't think that is really a problem. Young people (…
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@msh @bass4dking @ajroach42 Something like this perhaps?https://edition.cnn.com…
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@OvertonDoors The empire I'm talking about is that of the current capitalis…
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True enough, no disagreement here @ajroach42It's the same technology corps …
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@ajroach42 ChatGPT is as addictive and destructive as alcohol, hard drugs and g…
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Okay! So I've responded to everyone as much as I think I'm going to. On…
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I'm skeptical of any legal solution to these problems, because "legal&…
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I've had a couple of people say to me "we should just let people be il…
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@ajroach42 Maybe they thought you think only text reading with eyeballs and may…
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Okay, another addendum: The ultimate solution to this problem is to dismantle a…
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So, let's talk about mitigation strategies to deal with the way tech has co…
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First, I think we need to state some of the problems as clearly as possible: Mo…
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Knowing what these systems are doing and how they are doing it is the first ste…
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@ajroach42 Interesting thread, thanks for writing it. I've seen other peop…
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@ajroach42 Dang this thread is good
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@ajroach42 I believe it, I've seen it with myself. I think I have a mild In…
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@ajroach42 i still think the physical discomfort of holding open most books rea…
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@apophis Probably! We mostly do reading practice with comic books, video games,…
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@ajroach42 the wild thing is that I'm almost 30 and uhhhh this post feels l…
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@hazelnot it's rough out there.
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@ajroach42 yep. "tech of choice" is an excellent phrase for this flav…
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@loppear @ajroach42 I think there is a very different character between a creat…
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@ajroach42 stepped away from screens for a while and didn't want this to en…
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@ajroach42 startling to me is how much of my younger self- and my younger sibli…
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@throatmuppet absolutely same, and I'm worried that these skills, to recove…
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@ajroach42 what time scales are you talking about? post-2012? post-2020? or has…
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@ghostynewt I started working with kids on reading and technology in 2006, whil…
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@ghostynewt when I've spoken with teachers and other professionals about re…
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@ajroach42 about a decade and a half ago I (incorrectly) predicted we’d be in…
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@ajroach42 Oh. Stop. Stop. (I have to stop. I'll keep going in a minute.)
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@ajroach42 I guess it's best to minimize screentime, but I do a free softwa…
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@bsmall2 I love that. I'm not convinced that minimizing screentime is helpf…
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@ajroach42 Yeah.. I'm flexible on screentime, but if they're going to b…
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@ajroach42 OK, grampa, thanks for telling me MTV is super bad.Literally all &#3…
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@ajroach42 And we *were* divided into factions. Ha ha Breakfast Club, but I spe…
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@ajroach42 It is true the younger generation are illiterate. Sometimes we say &…
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@ajroach42 They're kids. No obligations. They have time to go a month witho…
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@ajroach42 This—> “I've been struggling, lately, because most of th…
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@mdhughes I think you've misunderstood my statements here, but it also feel…
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@ajroach42 OK, gramps, the kids are being exploited but we were free minds and …
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@mdhughes except they absolutely are more addicted to their tech than GenX was …
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@mdhughes I think that, if you're seeing the nerd/stoner/Jock divide as ana…
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@ajroach42 I have kind of a wide net of follows/followers here and tumblr and s…
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@ajroach42 noticed this trend in ourselves, even if we haven't gotten to th…
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@ajroach42 I came across one of my recent posts and thought of you...https://ko…
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@DoomsdaysCW absolutely.
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@ajroach42 And Dungeons & Dragons causes teens to run away or suicide (huh,…
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@ajroach42 we have a family friend staying with us who is a guardian of a 7yo a…
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@ajroach42 I'd say nature-based learning sessions, or writing, reading, sto…
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@ajroach42Hi. I don't have a solution. I just want to Thank you for your th…
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@ajroach42 this is the bit that terrifies me. Combine it with all of this AI hy…
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