…So I can have kids later in life. So that they can be freakin’ geniuses.
No, but seriously, I have a strong conviction that a vast preponderance of the Flynn effect, if it still exists (see here) can be attributed to the proliferation of visual media, ample and diverse in forms.
From Wikipedia:
Still another is that the general environment is today much more complex and stimulating. One of the most striking 20th-century change in the human intellectual environment has come from the increase in exposure to many types of visual media. From pictures on the wall to movies to television to video games to computers, each successive generation has been exposed to far richer optical displays than the one before and may have become more adept at visual analysis.
What precipitated me writing about this? Flynn wrote an article in the latest Scientific American Mind where he discusses theories and his latest thinking.
Getting back to visual media and learning, why is it that so many models of higher learning and vocational/professional learning haven’t taken advantage of the disparities between generational learning styles? I’m not an expert in this field, but it is peculiar and interesting to me.
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