Digital Kids and the Future – Videos
Did You Know?
Did you know your kids learn digitally? If you are having trouble getting your kids to read a book there is a reason for it. Shift happens. The following video was first seen around 2008 and it has some amazing statistics that put some global issues in perspective. Perhaps the most hard to grasp concept from this was jobs. The statement that the job that many kids may end up doing doesn’t even exist yet.
Most of our kids have grown up with computers, with mobile phones, with video games, with big TVs in their room. For their homework assignments we point them to the computer, not the 12 volume set of encyclopedias. Many don’t understand an index, don’t have the patience to read a page and prefer the company of their peer group to a card game with their grandmother.
They are called the Google Generation
They know how to Google but not how to research. Most of the jobs that will be available to them will require them to use technology. While they are using the technology, they are missing out on many things we took for granted. Like sharing time, communication and cross generational relationships.
Students Are Digital Learners
They are visual learners and many don’t learn to read at the pace needed to absorb information or to understand the meaning of what they are reading. They text not spell, they watch a clip not read a book, they interact with technology and are fantastically intuitive about playing with things to make them work but not so good at following written instructions or checking safe guard messages.
Evaluating Web Sources
This video explains why parents need to to help their kids to evaluate the information available online and to improve their ability to filter information when they search and what they find.
If you can restrict their sources for self entertainment and increase their enjoyment of reading you will be giving them a skill that fewer kids these days will have, except perhaps in China and India.
You can learn almost anything from books. Anything they read is good as it improves their reading skill. The mind needs to exercise in the same way the body does, so find out what they might read and provide it for them.
Make A Regular Appointment To Spend Time With Your Kids
Spend time with them if they will allow it, be strong and start some family traditions. For example, after dinner or before bed make them stay an hour together and read aloud from books with you. Try poetry. If they are young make them learn a poem by heart. It helps them to speak, to understand, to communicate and to engage with their emotions.
Many poems I read or learned when young have new meaning to me now I am older, it’s part of growing up. It comforts me when phrases come to mind at times of stress. I have words to express these feelings. They bridge the getting to know someone gap sometimes, as I discover a new friend likes words from a poem or quote that I like.
It’s too hard! I know, it is. I understand only too well, my kids disappear into their rooms and do their own thing. They have missed out on so many of the family activities I enjoyed growing up.
But try! Bargain with them, make a fool of yourself playing online games with them in exchange for them spending some time to listening to music you like, reading, playing cards – whatever. I fear that the family gather is something that will die with my generation and when I’m an old woman, I’d like to be able to share memories of special times with my kids. They may seem to hate it, but they will still remember it. Only time will tell if it’s fondly or not.
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