Kids and screen time

[link1896]

Strange that because I find after a good session with the tablet in bed I always fall asleep quite relaxed?

well you'd be wrong

either that or your are a creature of the night, perhaps a vampire? Are you devastatingly good looking with a permanent pained expression on your face like you are suffering from constipation ?

Some guys did some research on it, how they got rats to use an ipad I'll never figure out, something to do with triggering a hormone release that occurs when there is daylight, thus keeping you awake.

steve jobs' pancreas, you missed it completely. come on this is RB. the internet is used for stolen tv and movies, and porn. the other 0.01% of the net is for constructive purposes

 

[DMan]

steve jobs' pancreas, you missed it completely. come on this is RB. the internet is used for stolen tv and movies, and porn. the other 0.01% of the net is for constructive purposes

Thank God. I thought I'd lost my touch entirely...

 

[link1896]

Thank God. I thought I'd lost my touch entirely...

no pun intended I'm sure

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, I'm not sure if you've missed my joke completely or not . Could be my dry humour. Poodle would have got it, but you are a steve jobs' pancreas and not his funny bone....

I got it, just decided to go left instead of right

 

[DMan]

I got it, just decided to go left instead of right

Good because I'm not giving up my tablet..

 

[PINT of Stella. mate!]

I find it all depends on what kind of tablet i suppose.

I find the yellow ones I steal from my mum have me out like a light in minutes whereas I've got no chance sleeping if i take the white ones with the mitsubishi logo that my nan has in her cabinet.

 

[DMan]

I find it all depends on what kind of tablet i suppose.

I find the yellow ones I steal from my mum have me out like a light in minutes whereas I've got no chance sleeping if i take the white ones with the mitsubishi logo that my nan has in her cabinet.

I hear you. I'll never take Great great Uncle Bill's blue ones with the V. I was up all night....

 

[stirk]

I hear you. I'll never take Great great Uncle Bill's blue ones with the V. I was up all night....

If you don't want them, send them my way!

 

[DMan]

If you don't want them, send them my way!

I dunno man, Great Great Uncle Bill can get pretty touchy about his stash....

 

[floody]

Interesting thread. I have two perspectives, my own and my kid's.

I wasn't a full-on computer nerd in my school years, but I was a bit of a tech geek at times. We had a Commodore 64 and then a PC at home fairly early on and I "wasted" quite a few hours as an adolescent and young adult. Now I hold a very technical medical imaging position. Much like Jesterarts, I can't help but think my "wasted hours" as a kid helped me get to where I am. It's a side of my personality that has led to some sleepless gaming nights but also to a good job. And it's a job that hadn't even been invented when I left school 20 odd years ago, sorry Floody, but that's how fast tech is changing.

Well I disagree that tech is changing the majority of jobs. I agree that for some professions, some trades; yes, no doubt it is changing the way they work. In what is progressively becoming a service economy, the changes in most jobs are at the periphery.

Your relatively small 'screen time' growing up was probably to some degree more productive than spending every waking hour snapchatting, playing angry birds or on facebook, or any of the extremely simplified software/apps most young people are using in the majority of their technology interaction. The onus to have some even basic degree of understanding of what's under the 'hood' of the flashy colorful gui is vanishing incredibly quickly and I think this is going to be a serious deleterious factor to current children's aptitude for engaging on anything but a surface level with technology into the future.

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

I think this is going to be a serious deleterious factor to current children's aptitude for engaging on anything but a surface level with technology into the future.

so what ?

Plenty of people enjoy cars and motorbikes without an inkling as to how they work

or how many people enjoy music with any basic understanding of music theory or the difference between a strat and a les paul.

Reminds me of Professor Frink "no children, you cant play with it, you wont enjoy it on as many levels as I will"

 

[PINT of Stella. mate!]

Well I disagree that tech is changing the majority of jobs. I agree that for some professions, some trades; yes, no doubt it is changing the way they work. In what is progressively becoming a service economy, the changes in most jobs are at the periphery.

Your relatively small 'screen time' growing up was probably to some degree more productive than spending every waking hour snapchatting, playing angry birds or on facebook, or any of the extremely simplified software/apps most young people are using in the majority of their technology interaction. The onus to have some even basic degree of understanding of what's under the 'hood' of the flashy colorful gui is vanishing incredibly quickly and I think this is going to be a serious deleterious factor to current children's aptitude for engaging on anything but a surface level with technology into the future.

I can't think of any job that hasn't been drastically changed by technology - even craftsmen who have been doing the same artisan bollocks for centuries are now hawking their wares on ebay and the like to people all around the world.

The fact that 99% of employers will have their staff's mobile numbers is another drastic change.
Paycheques. Remember them?

We're having this discussion online and most of us are at work. yet how many of us would consider 'doing shit with computers' to be the main description of their job?

As for kids being engaged at only the surface level with programs, it doesn't take long before they are looking for ways to get around the programs limitations. Just ask any teen how to set up a vpn or get around their school's firewall...