This is normal. Teachers assume a baseline of expectation of students but don't realize that baseline is too low or too slow for students. I did not understand why highschool sucked until I realized that it was structured for industrial piecemeal education instead of in depth full concept studying. Basically high school was too slow for me and every kid of that generation.
It must be a lot worse now.
This sounds a lot like that. What the teacher calls "playing" the kids call pedestrian, too slow and not sophisticated enough. The kids are way ahead of the teacher, to the degree that I can infer any of that from the example.
I think this is more a Huxley scenario than the kids being advanced in some way. Tablets and such are vastly superior dopamine engines than Lincoln logs. Kids more susceptible to increases in the reward pathway threshold aren't going to be entertained by less technologically advanced activities.
Whether this is causing some sort of harm to their development is still questionable and not particularly well studied. I think one can speculate it is an inevitable issue though, with the main question being have we created sufficiently stimulating devices to create something akin to drug use yet.
This is a really great point.
with the main question being have we created sufficiently stimulating devices to create something akin to drug use yet.
I'm fairly certain that TV watching...I mean the way normies do it, hours and hours completely tuned out of their surroundings...has been proven to mimic the effects of heroin use.
My wife and I have a very busy 2 year old, and a 3 month old. Sometimes we need him to just relax and not try to climb on stools and the kitchen countertops. It's also winter, so sending him outside is not really an option. So we will turn on the TV for a half an hour while I make supper and she puts the baby down for a nap.
It's disturbing to see how instantly hypnotized he is by the glowing jewish screen.
years back before cell phones and tablets were so common late 90s early 00s they had these little Einstein videos, parents would camp their baby or toddler in front of the videos all day because it was "educational" there ended up being studies and articles coming out claiming it was making the kids autistic and setting them back from their peers.
the autistic label gets thrown onto everything it seems, but setting them back from their peers seems more plausible.
Yeah it's like tripping balls on acid every weekend for a year and then wondering why pot just doesn't cut it for you anymore. You build up a tolerance to the stimulation and mundane stuff is not going to cut it.
At the same time some of this is just the teacher being way out of touch. Slenderman and Sirenhead and crap are just trendy memes, they come from SCP wikis and some artists drawings, they are modded into all sorts of games and crap because using the models isn't going to get you sued. They are supposed to be creepy, they are the new boogie-men for the internet age. Kids latch onto them because they don't have a concept of cringe. This bitch would have been complaining about Tamagachis and Super Mario and Sonic in my day.
Technology can make learning way more immersive and enjoyable and that's half the reason the teachers fear it, it makes them obsolete, it obliterates the small shreds of power they hold. At the same time it's centralized for efficiency and this lends to total control and breaks all sorts of societal failsafes (that aren't doing us too much good right now anyway, see the commie teachers unions).
... It's a real mixed bag and I don't trust normie society to navigate the issue well.
I went to private school every year exept for one. I ended up taking the standardized test the year in public school. When we got the results, I scored 5/5 in all areas. I joked that obviously I would, ghe test was so easy. After I finished that sentence, I noticed the guys scores next to me 2\5 another person 3\5. I quickly realized I should shut the fuck up because no one else was close to me. Classes were a joke, I was learning things I learned in 5th and 6th grade. Total fucking joke. Only salvation was the technology dept with wood shop, computer lab and robotics. Even then it was only 15 students in a school of 3500+.
I had first hand experience with both public and private schooling. I switched schools after my high school sophomore year - I went from a catholic college prep school to a public school in a suburb.
I had to switch schools because the catholic one raised their tuition and my parents wanted to move out of the city. I went from an average/below average student to an honor student at the public school. Like 2.0 to 4.0 in less than a year. I struggled at the private school because they loaded students down with homework - an average of 3 hours a night, while the public school gave us about an hour's worth. In fact, some of the regular classes I took at the private school ended up being honors classes at my public school - like chemistry.
You're not wrong...I was way to "advanced" for my public school education too, but I don't think that explains the effects of children being raised by smart devices. It's disturbing to say the least.
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