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I admire the way experts speak for TED Talks. I always learn something.
This is a 16-minute video presented by Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington who started out as a pediatrician, became a researcher of early childhood behavior and thinking because he became a parent! It seems like parenthood brings forth interest in child development because we want the best for our children.
Through the ages, parents always try to nurture and bring up their children to the best of their abilities. Culture, socioeconomics, and the parents' perspectives have always guided and limited these efforts. As culture changes, we may not even see choices about ways to engage or not. That's the big question with technology, which occupies and enhances modern life--like right now, with me blogging!
Technology seems mostly beneficial, but is it? I am always reminded of Walter Wink saying that the principalities and powers are composed of goodness and wrongs, and need to be redeemed. I think that applies to people and everything else, because nothing is totally good or completely bad and everything could/should be improved. And I am starting to look at the use of technology in my life--How much time is superficially occupied or is it used productively? Both/and. . . . . .
Now here is the video, which I would have appreciated when I was the parent of young children, especially because he talks about the development of the brain, even showing how it grows dramatically until we're in our 20's AND reduces after the 50's and 60's (even though I am learning to play the piano!).
This is a 16-minute video presented by Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington who started out as a pediatrician, became a researcher of early childhood behavior and thinking because he became a parent! It seems like parenthood brings forth interest in child development because we want the best for our children.
Through the ages, parents always try to nurture and bring up their children to the best of their abilities. Culture, socioeconomics, and the parents' perspectives have always guided and limited these efforts. As culture changes, we may not even see choices about ways to engage or not. That's the big question with technology, which occupies and enhances modern life--like right now, with me blogging!
Technology seems mostly beneficial, but is it? I am always reminded of Walter Wink saying that the principalities and powers are composed of goodness and wrongs, and need to be redeemed. I think that applies to people and everything else, because nothing is totally good or completely bad and everything could/should be improved. And I am starting to look at the use of technology in my life--How much time is superficially occupied or is it used productively? Both/and. . . . . .
Now here is the video, which I would have appreciated when I was the parent of young children, especially because he talks about the development of the brain, even showing how it grows dramatically until we're in our 20's AND reduces after the 50's and 60's (even though I am learning to play the piano!).
