Children and Technology

Technology hasn't made children any more or less intelligent.
It's just made them older, regardless of their number of years.

My 11 year-old nephew knows more about the world than I did at 15.
Information is as close as a few clicks to children, and as a result of more available information, more is now required earlier and earlier.


Technological innovation has shifted the type of intelligence desired by employers, which is and has always been the determining factor in education.

The whole education system is not designed to build creative, critical thinkers who are constantly taking in new information and sifting through it using finely tuned analytical skills.

The system is designed to create worker bees who might have a hobby or two outside the hive.

Thus we have older adults going through midlife crises when their status as worker bee finally becomes obvious, younger adults refusing to become worker bees and thus being accused of letting the country go down the toilet, teens dropping like flies under the pressure to have their entire lives planned out by age 16 (at the extreme latest), and children already hating school because they know what's coming.

All of this is simply the result of a flawed system finally being exposed for what it is, and (thanks to technology) that exposure being put on display to millions who don't want to end up like their parents.