{"id":1463,"date":"2014-12-17T22:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/17\/dontbearuiner-fuckingconversations-nevver\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T04:13:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T04:13:46","slug":"dontbearuiner-fuckingconversations-nevver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/17\/dontbearuiner-fuckingconversations-nevver\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1463 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/17\/dontbearuiner-fuckingconversations-nevver\/attachment\/1464\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/12\/tumblr_ngp1r0FJEa1qz6f9yo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dontbearuiner.tumblr.com\/post\/105420318548\/fuckingconversations-nevver-whats-wrong\">dontbearuiner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fuckingconversations.tumblr.com\/post\/105384871248\/nevver-whats-wrong-with-this-picture-idk\">fuckingconversations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thisisnthappiness.com\/post\/105379493724\/whats-wrong-with-this-picture\">nevver<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/designobserver.com\/feature\/whats-wrong-with-this-picture\/38702\/\">What\u2019s wrong with this picture<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Idk, maybe they\u2019re reading about the history around them.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever<strong> been<\/strong> to the Louvre? There are a shit-ton of apps you can download to help you learn the history and meaning behind the paintings. Like, when you walk in, after you go through the security scan, there are ACTUALLY shit-ton of advertisements and suggestions on how to download learning apps, buy their digital walk-through. or take a guided tour.\u00a0 They\u2019re quite happy to stuff tech down your throat (and your wallet) to enhance your experience. (it also makes it easier on the staff, to take smaller groups. Some people just like wandering on their own)<\/p>\n<p>When I went through there, there was a class, and the teacher told them to write down notes. Many kids hadn\u2019t brought notepads, and when the teacher said \u2018write this down\u2019 they all shuffled their phones out, and tapped away on a \u2018notebook\u2019 app.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, these kids in the pic might be taking a break after walking through a three-hour tour of learning and history and magnificent art, by texting their friends or vegging out on facebook\u2026(and I know where that painting is, in that museum. It\u2019s pretty damn far from the front entrance. Took me an hour to get there, and I wasn\u2019t even with a guided tour)<\/p>\n<p>or maybe they\u2019re learning more than your technophobic ass ever will from just silently staring at a painting without referencing the wealth of knowledge stored within the internet.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of my college classes encouraged us to have laptops out &#8211; either to write notes, or to reference sources that the teacher was lecturing on. Often, people with tablets would have their E-books open, writing on the digital pages, or if they didn\u2019t have a touch-screen, highlighting and notating bits of text.\u00a0 One of my professors specifically asked us to bring our tech to class, so we could show him sources for when we wanted to discuss a certain topic that was relevant to the day\u2019s lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion? Fuck off about how \u2018technology is ruining our youth\/destroying learning. The internet has encouraged my thirst for knowledge more than 99% of my teachers have. It has enhanced classrooms since we learned how to source online journals, and made any school library a thousand times bigger than they could afford, had they only stuck to paper and binding.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh thank god someone made that comment, especially the bit about guide apps at the Louvre.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dontbearuiner: fuckingconversations: nevver: What\u2019s wrong with this picture? Idk, maybe they\u2019re reading about the history around them. Have you ever been to the Louvre? There are a shit-ton of apps you can download to help you learn the history and meaning behind the paintings. Like, when you walk in, after you go through the security &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/17\/dontbearuiner-fuckingconversations-nevver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}