thought: "They" have slowly and steadily changed the fundamential ways
that people learned in the past.
Modern technology is so amazing, and I use it to do a lot of things. Sometimes too many things. But when I slow down and do things with my hands and puzzle through things without clear step-by-step instructions I really enjoy it!
As I was sitting and thinking about this recently I wrote out a card that said:
The ways of learning:
Listen
Read
Watch
Listen
Read
Watch
And then it struck me how modern technology has replaced these slow processes with things that are supposedly faster and better.
Take listening. People used to sit and listen to the crickets and frogs and other things around us. Now when someone talks about listening they tend to mean a podcast or a show streamed to them via an internet connection.
Reading used to be a slow process where you had to go to a book store or library, find a group of books that talked about the subject you were interested in, pick one or two of the books, then take them home and spend days/weeks/months reading them to glean the information that you wanted or needed. Now I can go on Amazon and by an ebook instantly and be reading it within minutes. I can even listen to the book if I don't want to slow down to sit and read it.
Watching used to involve sitting somewhere and gluing your eyeballs to an area to see what happens. I always think of police stakeouts or predators watching for prey. But more often than not when someone says they were watching something it was a poorly-produced show or short video that again was streamed to them via the internet.
As I work to slow things down I'm finding myself wanting to listen, read, and watch in the ways we used to do them. Not completely since I really enjoy the convenience of the internet, but I am slowing down.
Fascinating.
Take listening. People used to sit and listen to the crickets and frogs and other things around us. Now when someone talks about listening they tend to mean a podcast or a show streamed to them via an internet connection.
Reading used to be a slow process where you had to go to a book store or library, find a group of books that talked about the subject you were interested in, pick one or two of the books, then take them home and spend days/weeks/months reading them to glean the information that you wanted or needed. Now I can go on Amazon and by an ebook instantly and be reading it within minutes. I can even listen to the book if I don't want to slow down to sit and read it.
Watching used to involve sitting somewhere and gluing your eyeballs to an area to see what happens. I always think of police stakeouts or predators watching for prey. But more often than not when someone says they were watching something it was a poorly-produced show or short video that again was streamed to them via the internet.
As I work to slow things down I'm finding myself wanting to listen, read, and watch in the ways we used to do them. Not completely since I really enjoy the convenience of the internet, but I am slowing down.
Fascinating.
