Teens and students are especially susceptible to the influence of clip culture. The entire younger generation, to one degree or another, belongs to the era of clip thinking. Young people do several tasks at a time and do not even understand what the problem might be, because they fulfill their duties, at least.
And indeed: do homework and simultaneously sit on a social network, watch videos, listen to the radio, click on photos and at the same time solve mathematical problems or reflect on the problems raised in the novel – even Cicero can't handle such a flurry of information.
What amount of knowledge will be after such assignments? Not zero, but not high for sure. In the mind, one factual material is assimilated not just in parts, but in fragments, between which connections are lost, causes and effects are confused.
Therefore, for many teenagers, logic becomes an impossible subject, and to read one volume of "War and Peace" by L. Tolstoy, there is nothing more to say. And why read and strain your attention when you can turn to watching a movie or a concise retelling.
The clip thinking of modern children leads them in the future, and parents too, to a dead end, giving unhealthy hyperactivity, variability of desires and opinions, substitution of responsibility and empathy – irresponsibility and stinginess. How to deal with the clip culture and give the new generation healthy thinking and mental development.
Positive and negative aspects of clip thinking
Series, especially cartoons, are designed to develop clip thinking of the younger generation (Peppa Pig, Luntik, Masha and the Bear). With all the usefulness of such a variety of cartoons and instructive scenes, the child loses interest in watching a holistic cartoon or reading a book, I want the pictures to constantly change and be short, it is difficult to keep attention on one subject, ideas.
Children's attention is already inconsistent, and the influence of commercials or such films further exacerbates the situation. Children especially like watching ads, because the variability of the picture, the brightness and attractiveness of the characters captivate the children's mind and lead them into the abyss of inconsistency between the picture and the meaning.
The child loses the ability to build connections between pictures and images, inner meaning and reality. That is why the younger generation has lost interest in reading books and thinking about global issues.
Table – Positive and negative aspects of the phenomenon of "clip thinking"
Clip thinking of modern children: ways to fight for mental development
How to fight for the successful mental development of your children? Among the methods of struggle, there are several, and the main thing for a teenager, a young person or an older age category: understanding the consequences of such a culture and the desire to correct everything, to improve their perception of information for their own good.
Many countries have already begun to fight against such thinking, for this purpose trainings are being created on the development and effective methods of analysis. Even specialized schools are being created in which it is forbidden to use any technology. Children in classes led by a teacher learn about the world, conduct experiments, observe, study, and all study is based on the use of notebooks, textbooks, pens and pencils, and chalk. It is forbidden to use the telephone, the Internet, a calculator, and other benefits of the modern world.
Method of paradoxes
Professor Mikhail Kazinik suggests using this method to combat clip thinking. The method of paradoxes consists in the ability to create paradoxical situations so that children and young people do not take everything written on faith, but strive to think over and verify the information.
This method replaces the clip thinking of modern children with more critical thinking and introduces the grain of analytics into the thinking process. For example, this statement: Chopin was predicted that he had about 2 years to live, even with a diagnosis of tuberculosis, he did not stop writing music and giving concerts and lived for another 20 years! Why did this happen?
This is a simple example that shows that this construction of the statement will cause listeners to think about this issue, look for causes and effects, compare facts, and thus hold their attention much longer. In all areas, with the help of paradoxes, you can interest pupils or students & nbsp; to the knowledge of deep material on one topic.
Reading Literature – the basis of mental development and a way to keep attention, analyze
For reading it is better not to choose modern literature, but classics or philosophical works. If you understand that it will not be possible to master the material on philosophy yet due to the difficulty of what is written, you can read more novels by L.N. Tolstoy, F.M. Dostoevsky, F.S. Fitzgerald, T. Dreiser, P.A. Zagrebelny, V.A. Shevchuk.
A break from information: one day of live communication and needlework
In our "fast" world, it is worth paying attention not to chatting or social networks, but to choosing places where you can chat live, or do needlework, any useful activity that does not involve accessing information sources from the Internet.
And let the information come from the pages of books than the pages of a browser. The same applies to parents, take the child into the world of independence. Uncover the secret of knowledge with your own hands, and not with the help of the "Google Search" line. Find the answer to a question of interest in books, observe the growth of plants, the life of birds, visit botanical gardens, zoos, grow plants yourself at home.
Get your child interested in needlework or stamp collecting, drawing, modeling, quilling. Anything to keep the attention of an unsophisticated mind focused on one thing that will please more than the virtual world.
Live live, real communication, and you will not be threatened by clip thinking!
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