Re: Raising Digital Natives

ccseed — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:35:07 -0000

Your sense that the system will strip away the creative potential is
valid. It's strange how embedded the puritanical sense of utility

shapes the system, whereas the pragmatic posture of usefulness widens

out (while building upon the same base no doubt), into a recognition

that meaninfulness, not productivity, is the bottom line issue...

Re: Raising Digital Natives

matt Searles — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:48:06 -0000

I'm no parent, so feel sorta unqualified but..

#1 Sound's like we are already off to a kick ass start here. How many kids growing up are lucky enough to have parents who understand this space and help give them the literacy in this stuff, and help nurture them through it.. when we all know how bad the schools are relative to this? So sounds awesome to me so far.

I suppose it depends on the child.. some kids like structures.. others, like myself, needed to follow there bliss so to speak. My prejudice is that all kids should go that way.. and then as a parent you try to introduce them to the possibilities, issues of dangers, and whatever.. and just kinda facilitate there own becoming.

I'm just such a believe in following your own inner voice that I think to often the voice of the authority for kids is a bit like the roll of the english empire in various african tribal regions once upon a time.. where they lost there ability to have there big dreams cause that's what the english were for, right?

LOL, that might be one of the biggest things to try and protect them from.. school's systems instinct to turn them into a good little cog of a machine that won't even be around by the time they get there!

I imagine in someway, as adults, we need to somehow dream big.. to understand the world our kids are going to live in will be so different then our own.. and when we inculcate our values.. to try and go through that viveka type discrimination process of discriminating between what are the values of our time, our world.. what are the eternal values, and what maybe things will look like for them. I think the good news is you're already engaged in that bigger dreaming..

But I imagine the values are like the parameters really.. at least till adolescence sets in. LOL, then it's all about faith, and praying a lot.

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