This blog is an initiative by two cybloggers to engage with ideas on the cyborg, cyberspace, cyborg and gender and cyborg and the body...
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How true!!! Though at first glance it appears to be a humorous cartoon to just make one laugh it is indeed thought provoking. In Child Psychology interaction with another human being has been given paramount importance. This interaction starts from the time of birth, which is why a mother is given her child to cuddle within a few minuted after its birth. Physical interaction (e.g.hugs and kisses received from its parents by a child), provides for emotional stability and in the long run produces a well-adjusted and well-balanced individual. Education imparted in a 'real school' through teaching by 'real' teachers and group activities both in the class room and in the play ground not only provides essential knowledge but also physical and mental interaction between and among its peers that is vital to the personality development of a child. In a virtual class room though knowledge may be obtained the most impotant aspect of human development -that is human interaction - is lost. A child whose whole life or most of it is spent in the virtual world will be an emotional cripple. Is this what we want to bequeath to the future generation? How horrifying!!!
How horrifying indeed. tut tut...'real' teachers who cause 'real' emotional scars...'real' human students that tease you, hurt you...and u feel alone...so alone...I agree machines aren't the answer...but the net n technology allows for so much information access...parents should keep kids home, teach them how to make technology their slave...kiss them, hug them...jus not molest them...and bring them up to be well adjusted human beings...as for interactions with other kids...let them play in the ground in the evenings...make them interact with kids in the block...let them do their thing...other than sit on the Play Station...dats to be reserved for when you're 25...I'm past 25...look at me. My mom did such a fine job :) - ARUN SUKUMAR
a lot of the anxieties about the 'negative effects' of the internet on children is about their ready access to porn that cyberspace makes available... even if we momentarily step out of discussions about hypodermic needle model of media analysis, and those about whether pornography is at all harmful or not, what we need to realise is that there is way more to the internet that porn... statistics tell us that less than 12% of all websites on the internet are explicitly pornographic... the 'dangers' that one thinks of existing only on the internet are actually more prevalent in the material world... and given that still most children in the country spend a greater amount of time offline than in cyberspace, we would perhaps do well to direct the greater part of our anxieties about 'harm' to the many possibilities of it that exist away from cyberspace...
How true!!! Though at first glance it appears to be a humorous cartoon to just make one laugh it is indeed thought provoking. In Child Psychology interaction with another human being has been given paramount importance. This interaction starts from the time of birth, which is why a mother is given her child to cuddle within a few minuted after its birth. Physical interaction (e.g.hugs and kisses received from its parents by a child), provides for emotional stability and in the long run produces a well-adjusted and well-balanced individual. Education imparted in a 'real school' through teaching by 'real' teachers and group activities both in the class room and in the play ground not only provides essential knowledge but also physical and mental interaction between and among its peers that is vital to the personality development of a child. In a virtual class room though knowledge may be obtained the most impotant aspect of human development -that is human interaction - is lost. A child whose whole life or most of it is spent in the virtual world will be an emotional cripple. Is this what we want to bequeath to the future generation? How horrifying!!!
ReplyDeleteHow horrifying indeed. tut tut...'real' teachers who cause 'real' emotional scars...'real' human students that tease you, hurt you...and u feel alone...so alone...I agree machines aren't the answer...but the net n technology allows for so much information access...parents should keep kids home, teach them how to make technology their slave...kiss them, hug them...jus not molest them...and bring them up to be well adjusted human beings...as for interactions with other kids...let them play in the ground in the evenings...make them interact with kids in the block...let them do their thing...other than sit on the Play Station...dats to be reserved for when you're 25...I'm past 25...look at me. My mom did such a fine job :)
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a lot of the anxieties about the 'negative effects' of the internet on children is about their ready access to porn that cyberspace makes available... even if we momentarily step out of discussions about hypodermic needle model of media analysis, and those about whether pornography is at all harmful or not, what we need to realise is that there is way more to the internet that porn... statistics tell us that less than 12% of all websites on the internet are explicitly pornographic... the 'dangers' that one thinks of existing only on the internet are actually more prevalent in the material world... and given that still most children in the country spend a greater amount of time offline than in cyberspace, we would perhaps do well to direct the greater part of our anxieties about 'harm' to the many possibilities of it that exist away from cyberspace...
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