tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post5252933845532361383..comments2024-03-26T07:00:11.620-05:00Comments on Wisdom of the Hands: some things stick to your ribsDoug Stowehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003845322415622289noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post-79850130320816150302009-11-08T13:28:23.418-06:002009-11-08T13:28:23.418-06:00As these adrenaline and dopamine highs become more...As these adrenaline and dopamine highs become more easily available through game play, they become more and more elusive in commonplace, everyday activities. With pleasure learning in the classroom with others becoming more elusive, expect, more solitary engagement in self-medication through gaming.<br /><br />Want you kid to actually grow up and leave the house and become a mature adult? Kill the x-box and give him or her some real tools to work with.Doug Stowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13003845322415622289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34011427.post-68403091926180770992009-11-08T12:36:34.153-06:002009-11-08T12:36:34.153-06:00Your last sentence brought forward the dilemma qui...Your last sentence brought forward the dilemma quite well: ("In the same way, technology using adrenaline and dopamine will create lessons for our children through advanced gaming, shaping them to become perfect consumers and compliant, manageable adults, mindless, easily manipulated, lacking in personal creativity.")<br /><br />It is my opinion that we're dumbing-down education when we allow our children uncontrolled access to these games. Just more evidence that we have now entered an "American Idol" society where the "flash" becomes more important in our decisions & judgments than does the "substance". I've discovered that meaningful substance is obtained best when intellectual thought is induced through hands-on activity... not something that is going to be stimulated by playing hours and hours of computer games.<br /><br />I am also led to wonder if such uncontrolled exposure to these technologically induced adrenaline and dopamine highs only contributes to their inability to make rational decisions or do they only encourage instant gratification? Someone once said that, "a democracy can only survive through an educated populace" and I'm convinced that drifting away from hands-on learning is not making us a more "educated" country. Sad.<br /><br />You would think that these studies would make the obvious case for more hands-on education in and out of the classroom but I won't hold my breath expecting the "obvious" direction.Dave Brockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16074715438584429020noreply@blogger.com