emmy

hey isn't that how scientists study & learn? by experimenting with information!

indymediaroom-i see your passionate,obviously the way your message was delivered though it needs some tweaking to avoid offense! everyone learns differently so if having a TV doesn't work for you awesome. i can respect that.

i used to not have cable (almost 6 years) because there's alot that i could do without. i did miss though that which i enjoy, but not enough to hook up the cable. then i noticed my kids at others houses enjoying so much on cable. so i hooked it up. i still don't watch much TV but my kids love it, silly cartoons and adventure programs! like tonight we as a family watched preditor vs prey on discovery channel. i learned watching a grizzly devour a baby elk (calf) is so vicious that i couldn't watch that part! one of my sons thought it was "cool" (the cycle of life). i thought the host is amazing with wild animals, something i personally wouldn't do but hey its something HE's passionate about and wants to share it with the world.

how & what do you and your kids do together to explore the things you all love?

emmy

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----- Original Message -----
From: Paula Sjogerman
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] TV




>
> Can someone learn from "information" that is innacurate?

Absolutely. There's lots of learning that's not about the "facts"
that someone may be saying. I'd say it's an essential part of
becoming a critical thinker to be exposed to all kinds of information
from all kinds of sources. When you're not there to filter things for
your kids, how will they have learned how to do it for themselves?

> Have you ever noticed that video games make good little soldiers
> who are desensitized to destroying life?

Have you ever noticed the many, many kids who play video games and
are clearly not characterized by the above? My son would be one of
them. If you don't know kids like that, I'm sorry for you. Perhaps
you need to spend more time reading about and/or being with actual
unschoolers.

> There is absolutely nothing on TV that is accurate
> or valuable.

I think you don't realize that you are insulting the many people on
this list who have found lots of valuable things on television. Aside
from the "accuracy" debate, what about just pure fun? What about
entertainment? Since you don't have a tv, I don't think you can
accurately describe what's on right now as worthless. I could make a
compelling argument that we are currently in a golden age of
television. Sure there's lots of crap, but there's lots of crappy
books and music and art, etc.

Your description of the results of television on people is untrue.
Real people can be more complex and more intelligent than you seem to
give us credit for.

Paula, whose life has been vastly enriched by television and who
still manages to be a non-racist, feminist lover of the environment
who votes.




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