Remote learning for kids may be dangerous {VLOG}

Remote learning for kids also conditions kids {VLOG}

In today’s NJroute22.com VLOG – we’re going to chime in about “remote learning” during the crisis of 2020-2021.

Our viewpoint is not going to get into granular details.

It will be more from a holistic angle.

We are not too worried about our kids LACK of “information,” or “education,” or whatever you want to label it as.

My focus is going to be on the MEDIUM itself.

The digital one.

Kids will begin believing all digital communications

My primary concern is about the facility in which kids are communicating when remote learning.

They’re getting conditioned (especially when four or five years old?) into treating moving pixels and audio blurbs as some kind of “authority.”

We fear that this will lead to even more “respect” for what they ingest online.

Including FALSE information, and MIS-INFORMATION.

Especially from persuasive personalities online.

The issue is that many kids will literally take everything they see online in the future – AT FACE VALUE – and not have the ability to question. Or use critical thinking skills.

That is why I am trying in earnest to show my kids what critical-thinking is. I challenge them daily to the best of my ability. I sure hope my efforts pay off eventually.

But that is it – we cannot have a generation of children who just treat everything they see on a screen as true, factual, or authoritative.

They need to have the ability to say no, or disagree, or reject entirely.

Life is not contained in sound-bites and other short nuggets. It’s a long game.

And is the responsibility of parents to ensure that their kids have and maintain those skills.

Have a great day!