I have a request. Stop answering the questions and start asking them. Please. When our kids ask, "Siri, what is 10 x 8?" I think it would be amazing if you said, "what do you think it is?" or "how can you figure that out?" We have teachers who spend 7 hours a day working with children on concepts in a classroom-concepts that require the brain to engage-and children are having some difficulties engaging. I can see, and understand, the thoughts of the child as they realize that when they go home a virtual assistant will probably spit the answer right out for them within a matter of seconds. But what if that assistant actually required them to think? That's an almost absurd idea. It shouldn't be.
We need thinkers and inventors and creators. "Alexa, why was the Civil Rights Movement so necessary and important?" Imagine if Alexa responded with " Here's some information (at your reading level), read it and I bet you will know why it was so important for our nation. You think about it."
Let's start while they are young. Parents - let your children have a voice and choice. Let them think. We need thinkers. Engaged brains in activities and in the community. I've attached an article about college graduates and thinking. It's short, just like this post. Read it, and think about it!
~Dena
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2017/03/college-graduates-still-cant-think/
