Geez Are we falling behind with the times in our education program?

I don't know. But I had the same thought as I typed that.

 

My children will definitely be learning about technology and it's advantages, but all of my children's work will also have actual book reading attached to it. Not everything will be allowed to be done through google etc. Everything is done through technology nowadays & i want my children to have a good balance. call me old fashioned, but in my home, books will be the chosen way of research and internet can supplement here and there. I feel that people in general get so much more out of reading a book book, rather than reading something from a screen

 

It was interesting yesterday. My middle two were given a page having to do with Africa's geography. Phillip went straight to the computer and typed he first question into Google. Faythe went straight to a world atlas book.

 

OH! I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner:

Kids who are 'technology only' taught are going to be at a distinct disadvantage in many college programs and nearly all graduate programs.

Many of my undergrad classes (this past year) would not allow internet sources. They are, more often than not, secondary sources at best. Or purely opinion pieces like blogs. My graduate program considers ALL internet sources as invalid sources. So a student who isn't familiar with the library and book-based research (as opposed to google-based key word searches) is going to struggle in higher education.

[It should be noted that my undergrad is in Communication Studies, which means it is heavily technology based. I point this out to say that I didn't study some 'old idea' major]

 

I get distracted more when I read from a screen as opposed to a real book.
There is nothing that compares to the feeling ofturnkng the pages of a book, the smell of the paper can be intoxicating! Lol

My son does not know how to read cursive, so that is one of our goals for this school year, to learn cursive handwriting. I will be giving him typing lessons once a week with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, and I think it is important that kids know how to use a computer: how to navigate the Internet, how to use word publishing software, things like that. If they know the basics, then I'm sure they can figure out how to use a kindle later on, lol.

 

Plus you can't read a computer screen in a hot bubble bath with lots of candles around you.....

 

I am attending a local college in my spare time! But, I was shocked when i got a tour of the "library" This brand new library has no books in it! Everything is online, they call it a Cyber library. I was appalled but I do have to say for homeschooling my 12 yr old, does mostly online work with a bunch of worksheets. He just seems to learn best that way.

 

Jackie, you get to take hot bubble baths?!

 

HEY!!! A girl can DREAM!!!

 

If behind the times means my child is learning more than what's on "The test" then I have no problem with that. LOL. I graduated in 03 and most of my high school career was studying for "the test." Luckily we didn't have to pass it to graduate but the year below us did. They hardly learned anything useful because they only studied "the test."

I want my DD to grow up not even knowing what "the test" is. There is a whole world out there full of info.

 

I am not worried, my oldest when we sent him to highschool at a prep private school they had to take a computer course for science one year.
He knew everything and ended up teaching the students how to do more than the teacher had on his list.
So far s computer stuff is concerned dd was doing her alphabet no the computer at 2 yrs according to a photgraph we have of her with a time stamp lol, I am not gonna worry if they know how to kindle.

 

There are tons of educational games out there for young kids to get basic computer skills. As the kids move up to middle school it is probably a good time to start introducing research skills and creating presentations with the computer. As long as by the time the graduate they feel comfortable using a computer everything should be good.

 

Yes, I have read the book. I believe it is entirely probable in our lifetime that something like that can happen. Be it an EMP, a nuclear attack (Iran just fired up their nuke plant), a solar flare, sun spot or CME or even just a basic failure of our entire grid due to age, weather, man made or natural disaster.

My older daughter uses SOS, but we have Lifepacs as a back up. We use both, so she gets the technology (mainly for me as its a wonderful program and takes a lot off of the parents) but she also does the book work.

My husband and I were just discussing how when I took my daughter to the library she had to show ME how to use the computers to look up a book. I learned the old fashioned way with card files and there were NONE of those in our library. (lol.. showing my age)