Virtual Reality is Sensory Deprivation

The Emerging Technology Disaster
in Early Childhood Education


On Fast Companies’ Article - A is for App
See: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/144

To the Editor of Fast Company, Anya Kamenetz, the author, and Paul Kim, CTO, Stanford University School of Education, quoted on the cover.

Just look at Eliana and Germma Singer on the cover, both age three – so cool, so hip, learning their ABCs on the iPhone - the next Technopolitan cover girls. Next to them bold – red “The Real Smart Phone Revolution, How Tech Is Making Kids Smarter Everywhere.”

Sirs and madam, technology cannot and does not make kids smarter. Nothing can be further from the truth. Intelligence is innate, not learned or accumulated, and universally present in every cell of the body and all of nature. To suggest that an iPhone will improve this vast innate intelligence is dehumanizing. How dare you? 1, 2

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More On Gender Bending Chemicals

michael mendizzaSome reacted cautiously to our recent post Why Males Are Disappearing.
First glance reactions often surface. It is called prejudice - a pre-judgment.

This is a serious and important issue, one that demands careful inquiry and deep understanding. I encourage you to revisit our recent newsletter.

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Why Males Are Disappearing

Why Males Are Disappearing
And becoming more Feminized

This is important - A new report highlights the critical risks facing unborn males and male toddlers from gender bending chemicals found in everyday products.

baby imageBoys born to women exposed to hormone disrupting chemicals have smaller penises, feminization of the genitals, are more likely to dress in girl’s clothes and play with dolls.

Male infertility is rising dramatically. Young men today are half as fertile as their fathers.

Male births are declining compared to females at alarming rates.

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Everything You Think About Schooling Is Wrong – Epilogue

michael mendizzaJohn Taylor Gatto Interview - Epilogue
One of the most disturbing issues raised by John Taylor Gatto’s interview is the point that breaking the family bond has been a hidden agenda of compulsory government schooling from its inception. Slowly erode the adult-child relationship and the allegiance of children naturally drifts from the family to the authority of ‘the system.’ Do this long enough and the next generation has no idea what a deep and meaningful parent-child relationship looks like.

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Everything We Think About Schooling Is Wrong! An interview with John Taylor Gatto

Everything We Think About Schooling Is Wrong!
An interview with John Taylor Gatto

Download the complete interview 

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