Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:39:52 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you get kids interested in computers- oth Message-ID: <20010314.395200@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
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I have heard about a recent research on the so-called "Internet generation". Actually, this label was used to indicate the [LoseBlows] "point-and-click" generation browsing, or rather, surfing the 'Net. Some results of the research: 1) pointing-and-clicking (cf Pavlov) limits thought and, especially, (mental) analytical processes; 2) pointing-and-clicking & surfing reduces concentration; 3) it also reduces memory; 4) people begin not to distinguish important from immaterial information, inter alia, as well as reducing their intellectual/critical capacities: a side-effect of too much (uncritical) surfing. In other words, pointing-and-clicking & surfing the 'Net causes people to become (more) stupid. No joke. Ok, many people have always thought (and said) that for ages -- on an empirical basis :-)) But now there seem to be more serious grounds for the argument. Well, it is an important point to consider when bringing up children... <half serious> Corollary: Unix (and FreeBSD in particular) is -- and makes people using it -- really smart ;-)) Intelligenti pauca. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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