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A word of advice for teachers and families with children in
school or about to be in or out of school: read Jane Healy's book
Failure to Connect. On the surface it's about technology in
schools and in education (computers in particular), but it's about more than
that. Often she reaches deep for words worth wondering about:
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"We seem to care more about how fast our children can learn
than how deeply they can feel... Instead of offering children our own
thoughtful companionship, we saturate them with the noisy and temporarily
self-gratifying objects of an electronic world, hooking them on artificial
stimulation and self-gratification. As we thus drown out their inner
voices and their inner selves, should we be surprised if they lack a stable
core... Parents and teachers today must prepare children for an unfamiliar
technological frontier, far from traditional choices and boundaries. Our
children will confront the challenge of pushing on humanity's borders, and they
will travel in the company of rapidly evolving species of virtual companions.
Not only will their computers be assistants; they may eventually become rivals.
How should we equip our children for this journey? In the long run, the
best preparation may be simply to help them become as human as possible."
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