More information help us make good long-term decisions or not

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And, remember, that dismantling does not come from teachers. It comes from the same people who might believe the Leonard Nimoy faked his death story, when they become low level town/city politicians, or parents who push their own agenda on school boards. People like to believe they know what is good for kids to learn, because, gee, they went to school .
I went to public schools that emphasized it was more important to learn how to get information and read than memorize things. That is, until I moved to the great state of Florida. My education essentially ended in grade 10, except for maybe math. Thankfully, my kids had the same type of education, at least in middle and high school. And, I taught in a school like that, too. A very diverse school, I may add, that made a commitment to this type of learning.
I may have stopped teaching, but I still get crazy over this. After seeing hundreds of young teens develop a love of reading and writing, and become thinkers, I can't stop.

Some of us are more than willing to hear from caring adults who have long experience in cultivating bright/curious minds to think, analyze and read deeply. Not just tweet mindlessly.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...een-time-kids/ Interesting article, but I've read in several other sources, that very young children should be strictly limited on use of iPads, computers when under age of 5. In fact, no exposure and reading with child, word games and above all, daily interaction with caring,responsive significant adults in everyday dialogue and discussion helps develop a multitude of skills simultaneously. A very young child cannot learn to read and write by themselves, they need live adult interaction and reinforcement in addition to the tool itself (book, computer, game, tv, etc.).

I admit that I'm very surprised to see occasionally, toddlers fiddling with iPhones that a parent has given. The kid can barely walk!

I am not a parent, just career wise a librarian and also by formal training. I have never been a children's librarian. Only a librarian for adult clients in professional work environments and govn't. Unlike whatever stereotypes exist ...a lot of them either deal with resources in all formats, teach people on licensed content databases or they work and teach solely in e-resources.

Yet, I do get questions from parents occasionally how they help encourage their child to read outside of school. This is for situations where the child doesn't want to read/dislikes reading.

There has been lots since the free Internet and the love of googling, about among adult learners, the loss of analytical thinking for some people unless an adult has been taught earlier, about critical thinking and information selection, through a series of research exercises/projects. It goes as far as judges hopefully not citing Wikipedia (well, who wrote that wikipedia entry??) in their court written judgements, issues of jurors doing Google research, etc.