“So what am I supposed to do with this?”
British “educators” discovered, a few years ago, that children in the touchscreen generation were too weak to grip pencils. Or do much of anything else, when you come right down to it.
Now it’s six years later. I wonder if they took the touchscreens away and went back to pencils, erasers, paper, rulers, etc. [Laughs hysterically. Has to be shoved into a straitjacket.]
Do you like the way we’re heading?
British pediatricians and school principals are saying the current crop of kindergarten kids are too weak to grip a pencil, thanks to their spending most of their time as “the touchscreen generation” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5435015/Touchscreen-happy-children-weak-hold-pencil.html).
They claim 58%–yeah, 58%–of children under two years old have already gotten into iPads and smartphones: and that their hand muscles, unable to develop normally, are weak. Too weak to wield a pencil. And they lack the motor skills needed if they’re going to learn how to write or draw. The tots don’t play with crayons, paintbrushes, scissors anymore. Just touchscreens. They aren’t playing with Play-Doh, either: but that comes later, in college.
I just had a horrible thought! What happens when these kids grow up and go to college, and they’re too weak and clumsy to play with Play-Doh?
Aw, well, motor skills, schmotor skills, who needs ’em? Bots are gonna do all the work, anyhow, and all the thinking, too.
I was born into a world of men and women. Real Smart People are destroying it.
Come, Lord Jesus, come.