I took written notes all through my education including the seminary and I found that even a couple of words would bring beck a concept that had been talked about. I always thought it was because I'd learned it both orally and physically (by writing it down). I tried taking notes with a computer from our speakers at priests conferences and found I didn't remember any better than just by listening.
Ah, intrusive thoughts.... at my gym which is largely devoted to families i am constantly seeing slobby obese parents glued to their stupid phones while their kids, equally snobby and obese, are glued to their own phones. They feed their bodies with undercooked overpriced crap while they feed their brains with the kind of garbage that Mary Whitehouse would have campaigned against. It's shocking. And demoralising. Their grammar is min e ustebt, their vocabulary is that of a nineteenth century orphan living in a workhouse. No wonder they have become the accessories of the mini computer that lives in their grubby little fist.
Recently a new student of mine at his first and only session with me thought he would just get chatgbt to write the story I had set him. His moronic excuse of a mother - who, by the way, is a GP (surprise surprise) was not happy when I explained to her that no, he wouldn't be allowed to use any screen in his forthcoming entrance exams.
We've been extraordinarily lucky with the 3 schools attended by our boys. The primary was a paper and pen establishment, some screen time was inevitable, but they learned to read using real books (and I read to them every night from books until eldest was 14). The high schools are also paper and pen. There's no sixth form at younger son's school so he'll move for A-levels, hopefully to the school his older brother is at. Also paper and pen. Eldest lugs 3 large ring binders around with him most days, he's studying English, ancient history and business studies. Lots of texts. It's great. Both high schools use exercise books.
I have friends who have kids at "Ipad" schools in town - many of these kids also need glasses from a young age, such is the impact of screens on the eyesight of children. In one family, both the kids need specs, but neither parent does! Bizarre and sad.
There will be a backlash and a retreat from this, as there is already a falling out of love with AI (just not by government - normal people have worked out its considerable limitations but the idiots in charge have no concept of it, its still a shiny new saviour that's going to solve everything from the NHS failures to the housing crisis). But possibly not before we've damaged the life chances of a generation of kids.
I took written notes all through my education including the seminary and I found that even a couple of words would bring beck a concept that had been talked about. I always thought it was because I'd learned it both orally and physically (by writing it down). I tried taking notes with a computer from our speakers at priests conferences and found I didn't remember any better than just by listening.
Ah, intrusive thoughts.... at my gym which is largely devoted to families i am constantly seeing slobby obese parents glued to their stupid phones while their kids, equally snobby and obese, are glued to their own phones. They feed their bodies with undercooked overpriced crap while they feed their brains with the kind of garbage that Mary Whitehouse would have campaigned against. It's shocking. And demoralising. Their grammar is min e ustebt, their vocabulary is that of a nineteenth century orphan living in a workhouse. No wonder they have become the accessories of the mini computer that lives in their grubby little fist.
Recently a new student of mine at his first and only session with me thought he would just get chatgbt to write the story I had set him. His moronic excuse of a mother - who, by the way, is a GP (surprise surprise) was not happy when I explained to her that no, he wouldn't be allowed to use any screen in his forthcoming entrance exams.
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We've been extraordinarily lucky with the 3 schools attended by our boys. The primary was a paper and pen establishment, some screen time was inevitable, but they learned to read using real books (and I read to them every night from books until eldest was 14). The high schools are also paper and pen. There's no sixth form at younger son's school so he'll move for A-levels, hopefully to the school his older brother is at. Also paper and pen. Eldest lugs 3 large ring binders around with him most days, he's studying English, ancient history and business studies. Lots of texts. It's great. Both high schools use exercise books.
I have friends who have kids at "Ipad" schools in town - many of these kids also need glasses from a young age, such is the impact of screens on the eyesight of children. In one family, both the kids need specs, but neither parent does! Bizarre and sad.
There will be a backlash and a retreat from this, as there is already a falling out of love with AI (just not by government - normal people have worked out its considerable limitations but the idiots in charge have no concept of it, its still a shiny new saviour that's going to solve everything from the NHS failures to the housing crisis). But possibly not before we've damaged the life chances of a generation of kids.