Kids Tech Play Debate
The cluster revolves around debates on whether children should engage with technology like coding apps and restriction-bypassing games, or focus on traditional play, sports, imagination, and social activities to better support their development.
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The kids are missing out! What are they learning instead?
If they don't excite kids, they're kinda missing the point eh.
You should try interacting with kids, that is how they learn :)
Might this concept remove an important life lesson for children?
Idk seems like a waste of time. Why not let kids get really good at things.
Kids haven’t spent time learning shit, they’re kids.
How's that bad? Isn't this how we all learned? By playing with cool modern technology?
This assumes that, when left to their own devices, kids will stumble upon things they love. This is false, because kids mostly don't know where to look, don't have any incentive to look and have the attention span of a goldfish.You are thinking what it would have been like for you and the error you are making is forgetting that most kids are not like you were. Most kids don't end up as adults on Hacker News. When left alone, without being introduced to a wide variety of subjects, most kids wo
Kids don’t need an app like this, they still have imagination we’ve long left behind. :’)
I think it's just a kid being a kid. Kids are naturally curious and creative. There are plenty of stories right on this comment thread that kids doing similar things 20 or 30 years ago led to those kids growing up and becoming developers, so really I think it's an example of exploring, and it may lead to something much bigger.