Children learn best when their bodies are engaged in the living world.
We must resist the ideology of screen-based learning…
“…At the farm, my children learned from being around the animals, trees, pastures, streams, stars and other physical objects. Things became more real, more immediate, than they would have been if a screen had mediated them. However, the experience was as deep as it was because of the relationships we formed with our hosts. The farmers would hold my children when placing them on horses or look them in the eye when explaining how to move sheep from one stall to the next. Our children had fun with their children while playing by the stream at dusk before dinner. When we drove away from the farm, my young son had tears in his eyes; he didn’t want to leave his new friends…”
Source: aeon.co
https://aeon.co/essays/children-learn-best-when-engaged-in-the-living-world-not-on-screens
Edited by Sam Haselby