Virtual Or / And Real

Small survey done: kids of an international school.

Age: 10-12

Parent's income: Rs 50k n above

Teacher: Who do you like in your class?

Students: Academically or otherwise?

Teacher: Overall.

Students: 'x'

Teacher: Why?

Students: Because s/he talks nicely. Contents are nice and behave nicely.

Teacher: How can you, become like h-er/im ?

Students: There are no specific books, on how to become 'nice'.

Teacher: Ok, what are the ways, one can become nice? (In order of their preference)

Students:

1 Interact with people

2 Books

3 Computers & Internet

4 TV

Teacher: How much time you give to each of these activities? (In order of the time spent)

Students:

1 TV

2 Computers & Internet

3 Books

4 Interact with people

If we closely observe this: since they are in the real world, their thoughts move from

Real to VIRTUAL. But in actuality they are mostly glued to VIRTUAL world. Close association with the VIRTUAL world is gonna be catastrophic, for the reasons beyond comprehension. B'cas virtual world, cannot react back. And when our kids are confronted with the real life situations, they are clueless.

So the big question is : why this is happening?

If we compare it with our answers, they will be different, b'cas today's kids brain have been differently wired. Your insights are welcome, for understanding today's kids!