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Originally Posted by MtnGoat
I look at how as a nation our children dependence on digital devices has increased so much. Kids owning a tablet is up 30% and reports put smartphone ownership into the 80%. I had an issue with my kids not running the streets, playing football or basketball or running in the woods. Most military people get their kids into sports, hunting, shooting or something. Yet with most American children we are not producing
Understanding the impact of digital devices in the lives of our kids in the growing years. As parents we adopt ways that maximize the positive effects of technology use for our children and assuaging the negatives. Yet with our world going so digital will America keep up. Looking at this book, I think just as today we have people coming into the military that can keep up with the digital devices we are working with now. Will our moral progress keep with the pace of our technological evolution?
If we have kids growing up with a bunch of tablets and smartphone. Teaching in our public schools will be driven to a digital base due to teachers pay in states has gone to a low. We will have people that can learn the digital warfare, yet will we have the people to teach the basic. Land Nav is now CPOF or FB2CP or whatever the next thing is. Looking at SF being teachers of the world, in 2035 when we have T-1000's will we still have people able to teach non-digital formats? Will we have to start teaching how to do that in the SFQC?
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We want to ensure our kids are capable of using technology, but not excessively reliant on it. So they get study time on both computer and tablet(some great learning tools available) and a bit a game time if they earn it.
Few things drive me crazier than seeing teachers who fail to genuinely leverage classroom technology, and rely on it as a crutch.
Earlier this year we had a light infantry close country exercise. I was running lead section over a hellish bit of dirt chocker full of steep terrain and extremely dense gorse(like briar patches).
It was a great opportunity for old school nav revision. I did have my 2IC using a GPS with overlayed topo map as backup.
We weren't perfect, but we did a pretty good job over a truly hellish bit of dirt and made our aggressive timings.
After the activity I got pulled up by chain of command for not using GPS the entire route. My response was that the GPS system could fail, GPS units can fail, batteries can fail. So it's critical for my scouts and I to be proficient in land nav.
It was the first time I've heard GPS is reliable enough for soldiers to really depend on. In my opinion, manual land navigation is a basic soldier skill and I will never budge from that position.
I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
Don't get me wrong....I love the potential technology offers and we want our kids(and my soldiers too) to love it as well.......but as a supplement to human creativity and innovation.
Introducing technology not only introduces potential capability, but also potential vulnerability.
We seem to focus more on the potential for capability while ignoring the equally real potential vulnerability.
Just as technology could not reliably and consistently penetrate triple canopy of the jungle, Google Street View and 1st world persistent surveillance cannot reliably and consistently penetrate the urban triple canopy of megaslums.