There’s a place for both. When I was a kid, movies opened my imagination more than any book. My friends and I would spend hours creating extended adventures based on movies and TV shows we watched. We never spent one minute acting out a book.
SCOTUS, MAGA Congress, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, LA Times, NY Times, X, Meta, etc, have insulated Trump, there won't be the intense backlash reported WHEN he violates the Constitution & fails to uphold the presidential oath. He's isolating people from each other because it's easier to control the uneducated.
While I appreciate the sentiment, the child watching the screen could just as easily be Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Savini, John Landis, Larry Karaszewskior, or Rob Bottin.
He wanted to read
but he was broke
and there was no local library,
so he robbed a store and deliberately let himself get caught,
so he could be booked.
My middle schooler brought home a permission slip to get a kindle. The permission slip was not from their teacher but from the vendor who claimed this tech promotes reading. I don’t know why our teachers are peddling this crap.
I wonder if social media powered by artificial intelligence combined with groupthink has reduced our spatial intelligence to the point where are brains just submit instead of critically think?
The idea that the information they read is so overwhelming real to them it bypasses all the brains biases.
I can't wait to see the Republicans fighting about AI in education. They have spent their entire lives trying to eliminate federal education funding and the Department of Education as it is discretionary spending not mandatory spending.
Oh, they're gonna encourage it. They'll view it as a cheap and effective way to spend less money on education, with the added bonus of building in the conservative bias. It'll exacerbate pre-existing issues.
As someone with astigmatism in both eyes, TV, movies, video games, and audiobooks are my only ways to reach great stories and my imagination works great.
It’s important to understand that I CAN read but it takes forever and is physically exhausting.
Spot on. Reading allows the person to imagine what is happening and each person can create their own version. Watching it tells you what the version is.
My first approach to philosophy was because of playing Baldur's Gate 1. "When you gaze long into the abbys..."
I was wondering why the Game started with that sentence and I begun to investigate it.
Good videogames can impulse good knowledge. They just have to be about more than just shooting.
Sorry, I have to disagree with this. Books are great, but so is t.v. just a different mode of escape. Video games too, can be a great escape for people trapped in abuse or depression. So please don't demonize them
So I was sitting on the plane next to the kid who was kicking seats (and me) while his father was playing a video game. If only that father read his child a book instead. Passengers in seats 37B and C would have been very happy.
The poor lad on the left is probably not building the skills or imagination to ever convey an idea as clever as this cartoon.
Preserve your agency- read a book.
Been reading my son (6) Tolkien’s Hobbit before bed, next stop LOTR. He loves it and reading books outside of his level with him has more than doubled his vocab since September 🙌
Some people/kids don’t have an imagination. Like they don’t have an inner monologue, or can’t picture things in their head. So reading is all fine and dandy but tv sates that desire for imagination that SOME do not have.
Reading is very important and can open up many worlds to readers. However, today on the internet there are gazillions of science based websites and channels on YouTube that can do the same, that fires one's imagination, that nurtures one's curiosity to explore the universe. Just saying.
I am not so sure. Canadian kids watch a lot of TV too, English-speaking kids watch a lot of American TV as well. The decline in reading is not even a North American problem, but in all countries with easy access to TV, home computers and smart phones.
I have an inability to create images in my head. Imagination has always been an issue. After getting my first computer, I poured myself into encyclopedias, world travel videos, free online classes... books were admonished at one point too. Regardless, they're tools for learning and creation.
Indeed. 🙂 TV watching began w us boomers, even "tv dinners" (still around) were made so people could sit in front of tv and eat their meal. BUT books were still a huge, real part of our lives, in/out of school. Same w our kids. We could laugh w sitcoms, then expand our minds/imaginations w books.
I think you are reading too much into the cartoon. It does not say, never watch TV—and it doesn't address video games at all—it says that if you only watch TV and never read books you are missing out on something TV cannot offer. Which is true.
But if you only read books, your reflexes atrophy, you don’t learn spatial problem solving skills and you don’t interact with your parents about how “sitting too close to the tv will fry your eyeballs,” so … who is missing out, I ask?
Respectfully - it says reading is better. It implies that your brain is more active reading (which is probably false if you ever tried to follow Hill Street Blues and its plot twists).
One of the reasons why I prefer reading the book than watching the movie made from it is exactly that no fucking director can do special effects as good as those I can do in my head. Not even near
My kids can still talk for hours about various animals and their unique traits from watching Wild Kratts and Octonauts. One is turning 20 in a month. There are some really good educational programs out there. And I think Mr Rogers would agree with me.
Omg, my kid was CRAZY about Octonauts! We even had character toys and ships for bath time. She learned a lot about sea creatures from Captain Barnacles and crew!
My sun is autistic. We watch a lot of TV together. But because of that, we also have the most incredible conversations. He really opens up when watching situations unfold on the "tube".
And we wonder why boys are having a hard time - when popular culture is pushing this girls are smart and driven, and boys are dumb and lazy.
It’s high time for a cultural course correction.
Girls/women can be encouraged, uplifted, praised, etc - without putting down the opposite sex in the process.
I'll always thank Ms Wright for prodding me to read in Brownsville Area High School. I was fine with comic books, but she tailored a list of authors that I might like and it all took off from there.
It was the works of Alistair MacLean that hooked me. And I'm finishing the Expanse series now.
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but he was broke
and there was no local library,
so he robbed a store and deliberately let himself get caught,
so he could be booked.
The idea that the information they read is so overwhelming real to them it bypasses all the brains biases.
Can't wait to see the Republican response. 😂
A cost effective way to remove teachers, eliminate their unions, and install conservative bias.
I wonder if the conservative bias will be contained at the state level or if it will slide through at the Federal level?
Sounds like a great SCOTUS court fight. 👍
It’s important to understand that I CAN read but it takes forever and is physically exhausting.
I struggle so much to find TV and movies that I want to watch. My imagination makes even so-so books, much better than most TV.
I was wondering why the Game started with that sentence and I begun to investigate it.
Good videogames can impulse good knowledge. They just have to be about more than just shooting.
Proof: Star Trek and sooooooooo many nerds
It turns out they were right.
+1
Preserve your agency- read a book.
The Archers, Shipping Forecast, Six O'clock News.
Then there'd be I'm sorry I haven't a Clue . . .
happy days, long since past.
The written word goes deeper into detail than a video ever could.
"Father, I cannot click the book"
ahh
It’s high time for a cultural course correction.
Girls/women can be encouraged, uplifted, praised, etc - without putting down the opposite sex in the process.
No reading is happening.
The shadowmancy is happening and nobody notices.
It was the works of Alistair MacLean that hooked me. And I'm finishing the Expanse series now.