I've been thinking about the chaotic pace of things like AI and the pressure to adapt to the shifting 'new reality' around us these days. Your articles really resonated with me. Learning and creating have become two-dimensional experiences. Studies show that writing by hand helps with memory retention and the synthesis of information because it forces us to slow down. Our relationships with the physical world, our whole selves, and others add meaning to what we do and create. Humans are trouble at multi-tasking. I feel like in order to learn, we'll need to unlearn and get back to some of the basics.
Thanks for your comment Sam. Yes, I wholeheartedly agree! I remember when some of the first kids books on the iPad with interactive elements —‘will transform the children’s book marketplace’—-nope. We haven’t evolved out of our bodies despite the tech evangelists trumpeting. The learning that happens through physical engagement is profound and provides the framework that we can build upon other kinds of experiences. All of the education disruptors (pixel pushers) were trained in embodied and embedded ways. Claiming that kids can learn through screens is robbing a generation of the advantages they had to learn through materials and people.
I've been thinking about the chaotic pace of things like AI and the pressure to adapt to the shifting 'new reality' around us these days. Your articles really resonated with me. Learning and creating have become two-dimensional experiences. Studies show that writing by hand helps with memory retention and the synthesis of information because it forces us to slow down. Our relationships with the physical world, our whole selves, and others add meaning to what we do and create. Humans are trouble at multi-tasking. I feel like in order to learn, we'll need to unlearn and get back to some of the basics.
Thanks for your comment Sam. Yes, I wholeheartedly agree! I remember when some of the first kids books on the iPad with interactive elements —‘will transform the children’s book marketplace’—-nope. We haven’t evolved out of our bodies despite the tech evangelists trumpeting. The learning that happens through physical engagement is profound and provides the framework that we can build upon other kinds of experiences. All of the education disruptors (pixel pushers) were trained in embodied and embedded ways. Claiming that kids can learn through screens is robbing a generation of the advantages they had to learn through materials and people.