That little thing called Cyberspace

There’s a wild world out there called Cyberspace. And our kids are growing up in it – each one of them slowly immersing themselves into the cold frigid waters of bits and bytes, through their phones and devices. When they were young, we let them play with our tablets thinking it was a fun distraction and an amusing way of seeing how naturally intelligent they are, or intuitive our apps and devices have become that even a toddler could pick up a – as they grew older, we started to regret when we couldn’t take it away from them. What were we thinking?

Stay away from Cyberspace - use a mind-map instead.

But now it has become a necessity, a part of their lives. They have to get online, the excuse is that quite a lot of the homework the school gives is done and submitted on the Internet, or has to be emailed to the teacher, or checked against a PDF hosted somewhere in the cloud. You just cannot avoid it, or you will be considered a bad parent who is depriving their child of a complete and proper education. You are not given a choice to allow them to get on the big bad online world, or stay disconnected like a cyber-hermit. Even as young as Primary 2, there is e-learning to be done.

The Internet has become a critical and unavoidable channel of learning, for good or bad, till shutdown are you disconnected.

For Nigel, he has to, apparently, do a lot of research and self-study online. You know how hyperlinks work, they link you into a web of madness – which is like a time-warp sucking up a black-hole of your life, like an alien abduction leaving you with a brain filled with nonsense, several hours of lost time and pages of unfinished homework.