It’s the habit and the hubris of parents and educators to ask, “What can we teach teenagers?” rather than the other way around. Yet, when it comes to using technology wisely, we would be wise to take a lesson from them.
In next weekend’s first annual Wisdom 2.0 for Youth, founded by fellow HuffPo blogger Soren Gordhamer, panelists and participants will consider the question “How can we help young people grow in awareness as the world speeds up around them?” I posed that question to my high-school aged son and college aged-daughter last weekend and their bemused response was that they disagreed with the premise: They didn’t see technology as a problem because they came of age in this fast, techno-driven environment. It’s all they know. They were, however, happy to give me advice on how to better navigate their world.
Linear and nonlinear processing of information: It doesn’t have to be one or the other
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