Here it is, the beginning of my last semester of my University career. It is an exciting and VERY scary time, but I think mostly exciting. As we begin this second week of classes I already find myself counting down the weeks till our final student teaching placement! But first come the unit plans, the professional development sessions and of course, blogging.
After class yesterday (Monday) I found myself wanting to blog about something Mike (Education ICT master) mentioned in class.
We began by discussing how people often say this generation is getting to much "screen time." We sit in front of screens like laptops, iPads, iPhones, etc for too many hours. We think these kids (and maybe even adults) are losing the social aspect of growing up. We believe too much screen time means no socializing and perhaps lack of thinking on our own. Yet when we look at people reading books, we never make the same assumptions. We think they are learning, and expanding their vocabulary and views on the world, we never think "Those people are missing out on socializing and stunting their imagination and creativity." But chances may be that those who have a screen in front of them are expanding their creativity by blogging, or editing photos, or reading up on the latest news from an article that someone tweeted. This sparked a different way to look at the issue of screen time and its negative connotation. Just think about this for a minute and the next time you think to yourself, "those kids should get out and play." In this day and age things are changing a mile a minute, this is one way these "things" are changing. Technology is here to stay, think about it, grow and continue to adapt.
~Lindsey
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