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Problem Solving

Homebird

I was wondering if mobile phones from an early age affect development of problem solving skills. As I grew up at a time when there were no mobiles I had toys and games as a child which often involved working things out. Today many young children have phones/screens from a young age. Does anyone think this makes a difference to their ability to work things out?

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  • I don't know as I've never been very good at puzzles or problem solving, but then I was never encouraged to or given the resourses to solve problems. We had a dictionary, but no encyclopedia or anything and any questions I asked were brushed off and I was told to ask a teacher because that was what school was for and why wern't they teaching me tis stuff anyway? I was only ever once taken to a library and then I wasn't given any help or encouragment so I left with nothing feeling confused and a bit thwarted.

    I guess for someone like me I might of been given a phone and told to look, but equally I might not have been allowed one.

    One thing I do remember was knowing peoples phone numbers because you had to physically dial them.

    I wonder if children develop manual dexterity with phones in the same way as us pre-phone generations did? I think cutting and sticking made you think more, because once stuck it couldn't be unstuck and cutting something out neatly to me seems a different set of hand to eye coordinations than flicking stuff about on a phone.

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  • I don't know as I've never been very good at puzzles or problem solving, but then I was never encouraged to or given the resourses to solve problems. We had a dictionary, but no encyclopedia or anything and any questions I asked were brushed off and I was told to ask a teacher because that was what school was for and why wern't they teaching me tis stuff anyway? I was only ever once taken to a library and then I wasn't given any help or encouragment so I left with nothing feeling confused and a bit thwarted.

    I guess for someone like me I might of been given a phone and told to look, but equally I might not have been allowed one.

    One thing I do remember was knowing peoples phone numbers because you had to physically dial them.

    I wonder if children develop manual dexterity with phones in the same way as us pre-phone generations did? I think cutting and sticking made you think more, because once stuck it couldn't be unstuck and cutting something out neatly to me seems a different set of hand to eye coordinations than flicking stuff about on a phone.

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