Any Nature Shows on TV Today?
Earlier this week, NPR did two linked interviews. One day, they talked to Steven Johnson, whose book, Everything Bad Is Good for You, presents the case “that the complexity of modern TV shows and video games might make today’s media consumer sharper than those of 30 years ago.” The next day, they interviewed Richard Louv, whose book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, “argues that kids are so plugged into television and video games that they’ve lost their connection to the natural world.”
There was just a little attempt to put the two authors at odds – to give each an opportunity to disagree with the other. I thought it was both civil and commonsensical that neither author did. Instead, both of them said that what kids need is balance. Agreed: I’d like to think that both technology and nature are useful and necessary for our kids, and that neither excludes the other, or stands in opposition to it.
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