Virtuality
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Screen orientation
Christian Morgenstern once said: The body is the translator from the soul into visibility. Therefore, physical activities have a positive effect on the learning and achievement behavior. Learning requires regular daily motion. But, many children are (also) lacking in this respect. The media orientation and the connected passivity is an alarming aspect of this trend. Already 10% of four and five year olds have a TV in their bedroom. Youngsters spend several hours a day in front of the television. That has an effect. For the neuroscientist Manfred Spitzer it is clear: ‘Television produces the qualities fat, stupid and aggressive.’ (Spitzer 2005)
It is clear: anyone sits in front of a monitor (or lies or anything in between) doesn’t move. An increasing motionlessness to our own body and therefore a generation ‘couch potato’ is the result.
Children often experience the world from in the third person. Therefore, schools have to become places of activation and mobilization, of doing, creating and acting. It is not about the question of an additional gym lesson, it’s about seeing ourselves with an acting part and giving motion time and space as an integral part of our life in school. Many arrangements that required us to move are gone, and where there is nothing happening naturally something has to be staged. To do something actively, or physically, is the source of knowledge, which is a part of our well-being to control our inner temptation. If we don’t like ourselves, Friedrich Nietzsche thinks, ‘we are perpetually ready to avenge one self.’
Sources, resources, links
Hille, K. (2008). Caution screen. A summary
Media:Katrin_Hille_Caution_screen.pdf
Nardelli, M. (o.A.). Gar nicht lustig. Kinder alleine im Web.
Media:Kinder_allein_im_web.pdf
Smolka, D. (2008). Die Pisa-Verlierer. Opfer ihres Medienkonsum. Psychologie heute, Ausgabe Juli 2008.
Media:Opfer_des_Medienkonsum.pdf
