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To: GPS Info who wrote (98)	9/5/2006 8:53:19 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) of 149

We naturally can’t stay focused because we have been trained in our public schools and colleges to drop everything and refocus our attention at the slightest provocations. While I don't disagree with the statement, I think it's a small contribution to the problem of lack of focus. Having children focus for 45-50 minutes would be a major accomplishment. While the advent of Sesame Street may have it's benefits, it's also contributed to the very short attentions spans of children. Plus the notion of parents sticking their children in front of the TV indefinitely. I think there's a major difference in required focus for the Wizard of Oz then there is for today's children's movies. If you tuned into the Oz in the middle of the movie, you would have missed something of importance that contributes to the movie. It appears to me that you can plop a kid in front of a modern children's movie at any point and they would not have missed anything of significance. Which is also increasingly true of adult movies. Then there's business. The current trend in business is teams/consensus. A recent study looked at creativity in the context of teams. Teams result in less creativity [innovation]. If you want creativity go with the individual. Back to education. In my day, team activities were limited to recess. Now I see elementary schools where the seating is arranged in little groups of 4-6 students so they can help each other. Are they helping each other or are we creating a generation of non-creative consensus builders, sic mediocrity. On the one hand the internet has great potential for knowledge sharing. But how is the young student able to separate the gold from the dung? There's a lot of dung out there. And what do we conclude about the emerging English language of "c u for dinr?", or just "dinr?". You have to wonder what dinner conversation is going to be like in 20 years. And I've noticed that there is an emerging spelling of "probably", sic, "prolly". Over 5 million google hits. It's a small percentage vs. the 549M hits for probably, but that's still nearly 1%. Is this something we just write off as just evolution of language or does it say something more significant about where we are heading? jttmab

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