28 Jul
2006
28 Jul
'06
2:19 p.m.
Excess of anything is bad.
We would not be forcing the children to one sort of path to follow but
town planning games would be one of the many games they would play, to
increase their level of exposure to various future career paths in case
they decide to take it later on in life.
Also by game playing, people learn faster as they are in a relaxed state
and not under tension to perform-- one can find one's aptitude or
interests more easily when there is choice and no obligation to follow
any particular path.
Another advantage to catch people young is to remove the fear of
complexity/speciality of town planning among a wider subsection of
society since in present and previous generations, people have refused
to participate in governance because of the perception that they have no
knowledge of a complex field.
We would have to think of the dangers of regimentation by ALWAYS being
AWARE of excessive pedagoguery but simple exposure to new things and
concepts of learning would not cause regimentation unless it degenerates
into an extreme and parents or teachers put pressure on children to
follow a particular path as is the case with medical or engg or
management learning today in India.
Kush
Harish Narayanan wrote:
Kush wrote:
I hope ngos and software developers can both
think of such better
ways to educate the newer generation and take away the dread of a
specialised occupation by building even better games and user
interfaces. Such games taken at a young stage could easily launch a
child into a career and give them a headstart. Parents would also
like to see children doing something constructive even while playing
computer games.
(I seem to have missed this e-mail in a sudden flood of traffic
from
mailing-lists over last week.)
Not that this has anything to do with this list, but why try to force
play to be more than just fun? Even seemingly "non-constructive" play
offers children creative release, and emotional and cognitive
development on various fronts. I am not sure if regimented play
activities aiming to give children a "head-start toward their career"
will really have the positive effect you are aiming for. In fact, I
could argue to a contrary.
But I won't, for I am obviously not a child-psychologist.
Harish
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