Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q So, Rona, what are you seeing in practice here, and is what Jinja is describing, is that an outlier, or is that a normal experience for parents?
A It's not only not an outlier, I'd say it's universal. Um, the pandemic really impacted all aged children. Um, we actually did some research on preschoolers, and unlike teens who could connect socially online during the pandemic, preschoolers don't chat online with their buddies, and so they miss the developmental window at the age of two and three and four when you first start going away from your parents and beginning to develop relationships with other human beings, um, even with other adults like nursery school teachers and kindergarten teachers. Um, What we heard over and over again from educators was that the students are two years behind where they should be once schools opened. And it's not just two years behind academically. It's two years behind socially. It's two years behind emotionally and their ability to tolerate frustration, to work consistently over a period of time, to do things that are challenging or difficult, to problem solve. Independently and with others, and to work collaboratively became incredibly difficult. Now, part of this, and I have to say that I love being on a podcast about technology with two technology gurus, and I am an old lady who can, you know, is really happy when I can get certain things to work. Um, in my, in my techno world. Um, but what, what I want to say is that this, it's not all bad. During the pandemic, the only way I could conne…
AI assessment note: “It's not only not an outlier, I'd say it's universal.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q What happens when that part of the brain meets technology?
A Well, what I find interesting is, first of all, without that frontal lobe, we're more impulsive. We think with our affect rather than logic. And we, we don't kind of put on the brakes. And therefore I hear young people all the time say, who are very techno savvy, but very world stupid. They say things like, well, nobody can track that I sent somebody 80 threatening text messages because I deleted them from my phone. Not understanding that anything that you do in an online space has a trail, in some cases, that will follow you forever. I've had young people, even when faced with concrete evidence that someone was pretending to be another person online, deny. It happened to me once. These are, you know, this is such an old story, but we had one computer in our home at the time. It was a desktop. It wasn't portable. And my son was doing his homework. He was a teenager at the time, a high school student. And I said, I need to quickly send an email. Can I just quickly send an email? I'm not going to sign you out. I'm not going to log on as me. I'll just send an email quickly. And while I'm sending an email, I get In the old days of instant messages or pop-ups, whatever, I get one of those that says, Eitan, what's the answer to problem number 10? And I say, it's not Eitan, it's his mom, I'm using the computer for a minute. And I get another IM. Why are you ghosting me? Answer the que…
AI assessment note: “without that frontal lobe, we're more impulsive. We think with our affect rather than logic.”
