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All I ever needed to know I learned in Kindergarten (as a teacher!)
You may not know it, but in addition to being a philosopher, I'm licensed as a preschool teacher, and I've also worked with kids of all ages in museums, at community events, and as a caretaker. And as crazy wisdom scientist Clifford Stoll (via A.V.Koshy's video post) points out, if you want to know about the future, ask a teacher, because they see the future every day...
And what I've seen is that the generation that started out life in the first decade of the new millennium is being nurtured in a an amazingly connected world, and one which is connected in multiple dimensions, not just the two dimensions we adults are used to with text and flat images. This latest generation experiences global traditions and diverse cultures in an intimate and personal way. These kids will grow up thinking that it's absolutely normal to have good friends all around the planet, and occasionally off the planet (the International Space Station has some serious WIFI!). And they aren't just chatting with their friends about mundane things, they are counseling, brainstorming, playing games, and teaching each other about how the wh*** universe works. We adults do this too, but it's still new to us, and so we're slightly awkward at it (hence things like flame wars and trolling and pop-up ads). We older folks are learning how to use global networks like a second language learned late in life, and so we've got a pretty silly sounding accent, and can't natively think in high-tech global-network-speak. But the young kids, with their spongy new brains, who are just now being introduced to the technology of the global network are learning it as a first language. They don't have to do a lateral translation to some old-school way of doing things and then try to fit that old approach into the new environment the way we adults are doing it, instead, they already think of the wh*** networked world as their home environment.
And what I see them wanting to do most of all is to know the wh*** universe, inside and out, from side to side, from way, way up to as far down as they can go. They crave a vast and diverse community bursting with mashups of cutting-edge science, culture, and personal stories. They regularly play with ideas about quantum physics, alien worlds, multiple universes, time travel, and immersive virtual worlds. To these kids the sky is no longer the limit! And neither is the speed of light, or even the linearity of time. Yes, the generation born in the aughts is native to a fully three dimensional universe, with some very real possibilities of exploration into four, and maybe more, dimensions.
All of which has led me to calling the kids I work with these days Generation 3D. Because they think, act, and dream in a far more three dimensional world than any previous generation, they will, therefore, be able to create and problem solve in ways that we adults will have to make an effort to even believe possible.
So when these kids are excited about something, and seem to have found a mission in life, it's in our best interests to support them, and give them all the resources they need to achieve their dreams of a much higher, deeper, wider, and more amazing world. And in 2020, I imagine I will be following the lead of the five year olds of today, allowing them to be my teachers, as they help me understand the world in a more powerful way...
And what I've seen is that the generation that started out life in the first decade of the new millennium is being nurtured in a an amazingly connected world, and one which is connected in multiple dimensions, not just the two dimensions we adults are used to with text and flat images. This latest generation experiences global traditions and diverse cultures in an intimate and personal way. These kids will grow up thinking that it's absolutely normal to have good friends all around the planet, and occasionally off the planet (the International Space Station has some serious WIFI!). And they aren't just chatting with their friends about mundane things, they are counseling, brainstorming, playing games, and teaching each other about how the wh*** universe works. We adults do this too, but it's still new to us, and so we're slightly awkward at it (hence things like flame wars and trolling and pop-up ads). We older folks are learning how to use global networks like a second language learned late in life, and so we've got a pretty silly sounding accent, and can't natively think in high-tech global-network-speak. But the young kids, with their spongy new brains, who are just now being introduced to the technology of the global network are learning it as a first language. They don't have to do a lateral translation to some old-school way of doing things and then try to fit that old approach into the new environment the way we adults are doing it, instead, they already think of the wh*** networked world as their home environment.
And what I see them wanting to do most of all is to know the wh*** universe, inside and out, from side to side, from way, way up to as far down as they can go. They crave a vast and diverse community bursting with mashups of cutting-edge science, culture, and personal stories. They regularly play with ideas about quantum physics, alien worlds, multiple universes, time travel, and immersive virtual worlds. To these kids the sky is no longer the limit! And neither is the speed of light, or even the linearity of time. Yes, the generation born in the aughts is native to a fully three dimensional universe, with some very real possibilities of exploration into four, and maybe more, dimensions.
All of which has led me to calling the kids I work with these days Generation 3D. Because they think, act, and dream in a far more three dimensional world than any previous generation, they will, therefore, be able to create and problem solve in ways that we adults will have to make an effort to even believe possible.
So when these kids are excited about something, and seem to have found a mission in life, it's in our best interests to support them, and give them all the resources they need to achieve their dreams of a much higher, deeper, wider, and more amazing world. And in 2020, I imagine I will be following the lead of the five year olds of today, allowing them to be my teachers, as they help me understand the world in a more powerful way...
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on March 27, 2010 at 5:26pm
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Eeek! Sorry about the misspelling.
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Comment by Nicholas Nagao on March 27, 2010 at 5:27pm
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Great Blog! I got goosebumps reading it! Thank you for sharing such a positive outlook for our future! It's people like you that inspire me to keep trying to do great things!
This blog is going straight to the top of my list:
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/favorite-favorite-blogs
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Yes, thank you Koshy! And Nicholas, too. :-)
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Comment by Catherine Gentry on March 27, 2010 at 7:50pm
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I'd like it...but I'd suggest we start viewing the world in at least 4D: Spirit, intellect, body, and the most neglected dimension though history: emotions. Visit my blog post related to the "Sophia Returns: World Water Day 2020" for more of a discussion of the relevance.
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Yes, Catherine, the more perspectives we are able to see, the more we can understand, and work with reality, rather than against it. And I believe that we are only just learning to be able to do this, and can be gentle with ourselves, appreciating the slowness and awkwardness of our baby steps as nature's way of letting life learn properly, rather than trying to force things. :-) As we are open to new perspectives, we will see them, naturally, as our minds are able to mature and evolve one tiny neuron at a time, or, occasionally, a wh*** bunch of neurons at a time, for some good old Eureka moments, just like when lizards were suddenly born with wings!
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Turil, I have discussed this topic with my father and others from older generations, and it's funny how many "dimensions" we already see in without knowing it (older generations notice more and often call it sensory overload). We have things like GPS with Traffic, which is piped to us on a screen, which is in some ways another dimension, along with data that is now being sent to heads up displays, our phones, screens all around us, our cars....I'd say we live in a far richer than 3D world already :)
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Nicholas, I do think we live in a many, many dimensional universe (possibly infinite) but we're not really able to be conscious of more than two or three dimensions at once, in our evolutionarily immature human brains. We can imagine our own perspective, and maybe one, or possibly two other perspectives at the same time, but after that, we simply can't hold them all in one larger perspective at any given time. Which is why so many people feel the need to multitask. Each individual perspective of the world seems separate to us, rather than seeing the big picture. I suppose it's like we have to measure the length, width, and height separately as opposed to measuring the wh*** 3D shape as one measurement by seeing the relationship between all of the elements in the object.
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Turil, this is very similar to the pattern recognition blogs/comments I wrote ;) I agree with you that we're a far way off, but we are beginning to see it happen, which is why I'm excited hehe. When you can combine multiple "dimensions" into one intuitive metric and say overlay that data in a color, or sound, or even a txt, radio, or television message, to me that's adding dimensions to our lives. We are beginning to do that with things like the Amber alerts, where many "dimensions", radio, traffic, and TV all find a way to pass information to one another. Weather might be the most pervasive dimension we've added to our everyday lives. We have always naturally had some awareness of "weather", but now we get updates via txt, billboards, radio, tv, internet, buses, etc, and not just our weather, but perhaps even the weather of areas our loved ones are in, which gives us another dimension we didn't have easy access to either (the environment of an area we don't live in). Sorry to hijack another thread, I just find it amazing and in the past overwhelming with the number of dimensions people already see in (many I don't even notice). There are tools that are helping give us context as well, which is why I'm starting to notice now, and making an effort to see what the newer generation is growing up intuitively understanding.
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Comment by Leo Bi on March 28, 2010 at 9:38pm
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Keep up the good work. when you break everything down to a fundamental level, it all comes down to connections and relationships that we have. Even from our bodies and how our cells relate and interact through to people. Good times.
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