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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Get hooked on nature: Ben Klasky at TEDxRainier
Rating: ****
This video
really grabs you in on his point about how kids don’t get enough time outside
anymore and how going into nature can really change their life.
This
presenter, Ben Klasky, starts off with comparing chickens, prison inmates and
kids, and asks which ones do you think get the least amount of time outside. Of
course the answer is kids. Fact is, over the past few decades kids have stopped
doing their after school games in the park or on the streets with their
friends. All they like to do now is sit inside and play their video games. Ben
Klasky has worked over the years in trying to get kids to go outside more often
by bringing them on hiking trips and sharing cool apps involving outdoor scavenger
hunts and what not. He tells remarkable stories of some kids who have had their
whole world opened up to them just by being in the wilderness and seeing
nature. It is truly remarkable what parents can do for their kids by getting
them to go outside, and by doing so would it be a game-changer.
This video
has made me think back to when I would play in the park with my friends after
school, and go mountain biking in the forest with them. And thinking back to
that, it wasn’t that long ago. Technology has really evolved over the past few
years and is ruining childhood. It really makes me think to how long I actually
spend looking at my phone or staring at the computer screen. All these facts
that I have learned by watching the video really scare me about the future. It
makes me want to try and go back to how things were years ago when we didn’t
text each other and actually talked face to face, or go outside and be active
instead of sitting inside playing video games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArhjLa4xbNk
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