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This is true for people who experienced information scarcity & thus know how to search & explore their own curiosity but talking to my friend who teaches high school English he is very pessimistic abt the current gen because they lack these rabbit hole skills at least for school.
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Have you noticed that despite the supposed information overload problem the incidence rate of your “how did I not know this!” flow of input-Aha moments has been slowly increasing over the last few years. Not signal-to-noise ratio, actual absolute signal levels? Mine has.
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Yeah, it’s not like people were more informed or capable in the past. YouTube is a golden age for autodidacts teaching themselves everything from guitar to home repair using videos, and it b isn’t Rickey science to look up the instruction videos.
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Agree YT is amazing but according to my friend the issue is kids only ever look at the 1st layer of info & almost never dive deeper for ex exploring. They find the 1st YT vid & once they hit a 2nd order prob give up. Maybe it’s just a skill that needs to be explicitly taught.
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