Technology Advances: assistance or hindrance?
So I was sat on the train the other day, and I overheard a conversation between a mother and a child about the supposed ‘excessive’ amount of time that he spent on ‘screens’ during the day. The mother’s argument was that his ‘addiction’ to these screens had a negative effect on the way he socialised in real life, and his performance at school. Now, whilst I agree that sitting on Facebook for hours on end, absent mindedly refreshing the page for something remotely interesting to appear on your news-feed is counter productive to say the least, I strongly disagree that spending time on ‘screens’ is a bad thing; providing you go about it in the right way. We are blessed with the gift of the internet. We have an enormous archive of valuable knowledge quite literally at our fingertips, and the younger generations have all the skills and intuition to access it. I have been struck recently at the amount of fantastic educational channels that exist on YouTube. Ter...