Humans can adapt to learning online and technology will help – Toronto Star

Our brains were not actually designed to work that way: How online learning harms kids well-being and what parents can do to help, Jan. 12

Psychiatrist Marjorie Robb avers that Our brains were not actually designed to work that way, to learn things through two-dimensional screens for hours on end.

But our brains arose as a result of adaptation, not design.

For instance, we were not designed to live in inimical environments, such as that beneath the ocean surface or above the atmosphere.

Many things that were once thought physically or psychologically impossible are now commonplace. In 1934, Albert Einstein said that, There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. Five years later, Fermi created the first artificial nuclear fission reaction.

Let us be pragmatic! Online learning is here to stay. At times, it may be the major source of education. There is no need to limit it to two-dimensional interaction. There is much development being done with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), as well as haptic feedback (transmitting information through simulated touch).

We should heed Platos dictum: Our need will be the real creator.

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Humans can adapt to learning online and technology will help - Toronto Star