Repsonse to Remi's post

I found Remi's post about younger generations interpreting the news differently to be extremely interesting. In our ADD world, it seems to be getting more and more difficult for people our age and younger to absorb newspaper articles and other forms of information that hurl facts at your brain. It is certainly the case in news, and I would say it's a similar case in museums. As we've all discussed, kids run around the museum as fast as a mouse clicking over and over, while the parents and grandparents try to get kids to read all the text, and learn. Of course these kids don't read the text at museums, when most of the museum is eye candy anyway. And besides, they're used to a faster pace of absorbing information due to television, computers, and dvds. Taking the time to actually read hard text must seem like carving words into stone.

the museum needs a teachnological update, just as the news does. kids are absorbing all information in different ways. i think the museums are doing a disservice to kids by assuming they will read the tinie tiny black and white text that often accompanies exhibits and dioramas. i think the museum would be surprised just how much the kids would learn by reading, if only it were more accessible to their preferred method of learning.