Always Connected: Generation Z, the “Digitarians”
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Always Connected: Generation Z, the “Digitarians”
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#2With all due respect, what a bunch of b.s. Goes to show that always being connected maybe isn't all it's hyped up to be. From the sound of it, it doesn't appear to produce any lasting insights.
p.s. Whoever typed "exec" to run a DOS program?
p.p.s. "Software is a dead. Digitarians know apps, games, and web browsers." WTF?
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#3This generation is fighting the largest class warfare battle in history and guess what. There is only mutually assured destruction.
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#4Just got back from a family reunion and my relations' kids were glued to their tablets playing mindless games and watching YouTube unattended for 4 hour spells and more day after day. It was so depressing, all these boring consumer drones in the making.
My kids get 1 hour of screen time a day, max (until they decide to become coders, and then the cap is lifted. :)
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#5Just got back from a family reunion and my relations' kids were glued to their tablets playing mindless games and watching YouTube unattended for 4 hour spells and more day after day. It was so depressing, all these boring consumer drones in the making. My kids get 1 hour of screen time a day, max (until they decide to become coders, and then the cap is lifted. :)
exactly, when they make the leap to learning how computers work, the game changes :)
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#6Just got back from a family reunion and my relations' kids were glued to their tablets playing mindless games and watching YouTube unattended for 4 hour spells and more day after day. It was so depressing, all these boring consumer drones in the making. My kids get 1 hour of screen time a day, max (until they decide to become coders, and then the cap is lifted. :)
Well there's screen time and screen time. Building something cool in minecraft is pretty different from watching spongebob on netflix.
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#7Just got back from a family reunion and my relations' kids were glued to their tablets playing mindless games and watching YouTube unattended for 4 hour spells and more day after day. It was so depressing, all these boring consumer drones in the making. My kids get 1 hour of screen time a day, max (until they decide to become coders, and then the cap is lifted. :)
I was raised by parents who strictly limited my computer time to one hour a day. I spent most of it playing games, so perhaps their concern was justified. But I loved the computer, so, so much. And of course, I would do anything to sneak around the limits: wait until my parents went to sleep, binge while they were away, etc.
It created a rather ugly tension between us; very adversarial. Upon later reflection, I realized that the root of it was that my parents had never made an effort to understand what compelled me to "veg out" in front of that screen as much as possible. They never asked me what a particular game was about, why I liked it, whether I was any good at it... in fact, I turned out to be exceptional at a number of games, winning amateur competitions and the like -- but I never shared those achievements with my parents, for fear that they would berate me for wasting my time developing useless skills.
My dad tried to teach me Java and Ruby, but gave up when they didn't seem to stick. He didn't notice all the time I spent "programming" games of my own in RPG Maker 2000. (I did wind up pursuing programming seriously in college.)
I guess my point is: before you limit something, make an honest effort to understand it first. Maybe play a round or two of that game with your child. Maybe ask them what sort of YouTube videos they like to watch (my younger cousins watch endless hours of other people playing games, which I still struggle to understand...). As I matured, I was able to forgive my parents; they did what they did out of love. I just wish it hadn't taken me so long to realize that.
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#8Just got back from a family reunion and my relations' kids were glued to their tablets playing mindless games and watching YouTube unattended for 4 hour spells and more day after day. It was so depressing, all these boring consumer drones in the making. My kids get 1 hour of screen time a day, max (until they decide to become coders, and then the cap is lifted. :)
Well there's screen time and screen time. Building something cool in minecraft is pretty different from watching spongebob on netflix. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30
Exactly - I don't understand why even computer literate people have trouble understanding that computers aren't "an" activity, they're a gateway to millions of them, limited by your imagination.
My parents also limited the time I could spend on a computer... and I ended up writing programs on paper while I waited for the next day :P
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well there's screen time and screen time. Building something cool in minecraft is pretty different from watching spongebob on netflix. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30
Exactly - I don't understand why even computer literate people have trouble understanding that computers aren't "an" activity, they're a gateway to millions of them, limited by your imagination. My parents also limited the time I could spend on a computer... and I ended up writing programs on paper while I waited for the next day :P
It can be more complicated than that, though. People need down time, we need an opportunity to reflect on what we've learned instead of jumping to the next thing.
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#10Just got back from a family reunion and my relations' kids were glued to their tablets playing mindless games and watching YouTube unattended for 4 hour spells and more day after day. It was so depressing, all these boring consumer drones in the making. My kids get 1 hour of screen time a day, max (until they decide to become coders, and then the cap is lifted. :)
I was raised by parents who strictly limited my computer time to one hour a day. I spent most of it playing games, so perhaps their concern was justified. But I loved the computer, so, so much. And of course, I would do anything to sneak around the limits: wait until my parents went to sleep, binge while they were away, etc. It created a rather ugly tension between us; very adversarial. Upon later reflection, I reali…
Great comment. I've passed it along to a friend in a similar situation with their kids.