T (20 months) didn't sleep well last night. Separation anxiety BITES! Or sucks, or blows, or sucks and blows... or something like that.
She was awake from 3-6 am. Just when you thought it couldn't get worse... IT DOES.
I'm hopeful to get a nap today.
In the meantime, I leave you with this....
Amazing statistics there. What should we do for our future? I use a lot of technology with my girls because I think they are going to need to understand it very well. How can we better prepare our children for the future?
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The figures are amazing but I can't help questioning the interpretation.
For example compare the amount of data that video streamed to my computer vs. the same thing as text in an email - this is not more information for my conscious mind to process, in fact you might argue it is easier.
Also as someone living in a country of 4 million people at the bottom of the world I don't begin with such an American centric persception.
Finally I wonder how all the information that your brain has to process from reading books, papers and online in a day compares to what it has to process when you open your eyes, look at a tree, feel the wind on your face and keep alert for escaping children or approaching predators. All our senses generate a vast, vast amount of data all the time and yet the brain has evolved to happily ignore nearly all of it and process the rest mostly without us noticing.
It's true, very American-centric point of view...
I think, the thing I felt when I watched it is the truth about how much information is "out there." I feel like I can't keep up at work. I feel there is too much to read. Granted, I'm kind of straddling 3 very different fields right now (at work I research one thing, I teach in a different area and I'm doing some "for fun" research in another), so there is a LOT of material I should read and I can't keep up with it all. Also, I have a lot less time than I used to have (with 3 so little girls).
I guess, the other thing that blows my mind, is that our children will probably be doing jobs that don't exist now. Granted, I do one job that didn't exist 20 years ago. 10 years ago, I was helping "invent" my job. Now, there are many people doing "my job." My job has changed a great deal. My question is, how do we best prepare children for this kind of future? I think we have to spend more time on teaching them to think. So much of education in this country is about learning facts, not about learning to think. It's sad.
Oh, also, you raise a very interesting point about how much info your brain has to process from reading versus experiencing. Somehow, it's different I think... In the info from books, you're trying to make new connections and go to new places and conclusions.... In experiencing the wind, are you doing the same? Maybe some people are trying to think new and different thoughts, but I think most people are just feeling air. I don't know.
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