For a long time, all parents agree that the games their children are just a waste of time. Much better would be all that time invested in it, to do something for the school, or at least once to read a "really good" book (which in turn determines good for the school performance) would be, right?
Although I myself am really not a computer game (the better not even ... "), I found the following thought experiment very interesting, the author Steven Johnson in his bestseller Everything Bad is good for you is described by the U.S.. I myself came out in the book to be recommended to the very Leku We call it the work of Holm Friebe and Sascha Lobo. Johnson argues that many aspects of today's youth culture - as is usually claimed - are soul-destroying, but very beneficial for understanding and intelligence. The aforementioned thought experiment asks what would happen if the first computer games, and only then the printing press had been invented. Since new is usually considered suspicious, according to Johnson there would probably soon to statements such as:
"Books undertax chronic senses. Contrary to the long tradition of computer games - children living in three-dimensional worlds filled with moving images and musical impressions kidnap, through which they controlled with complex muscular movements - books are simply just a series of words on a page. Only a small part of the brain is activated by appeal to computer games during the entire spectrum of sensory and motor brain functions. In addition, books make tragically lonely. While games make young people for a long time to build their own worlds with their friends and explore and forcing them into the books seclusion of a quiet place, shut off from the rest of the world. This newly created 'libraries' that encourage reading, should provide a frightening picture: Dozens of children who usually maintain an active and lively exchange, sink in silence and apathy in the reading ... "
Computer = waste of time?
This thought experiment shows us the importance of an unbiased approach, particularly in complex situations which are difficult to grasp in its entirety. All too quickly solidify generalizations and half-wise. Who knows what one thing has in the long term consequences?
The increasing digitization of our entire life is one of the biggest upheavals with which the humankind has ever faced. And who knows what in the lives of our children will be crucial in a few decades? Why measured So let us - we, the partial nichtmalsr skype or SMS-en can, whether on Facebook or MySpace can be found and know the difference between a blog and a wiki - not to tell our children what for them is good and what will be bad?
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