Prue Salter's Blog: Exploring the Power of Technology as a Learning Tool » videophilia http://psalter.edublogs.org technology in education and general musings Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:50:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Musings: Videophilia (April#5) http://psalter.edublogs.org/2008/04/23/musings-videophilia-april5/ http://psalter.edublogs.org/2008/04/23/musings-videophilia-april5/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:50:23 +0000 psalter http://psalter.edublogs.org/2008/04/23/musings-videophilia-april5/ What prompted these musings? An unfamiliar term I came across in the Australian Teacher magazine.

Having not heard of videophilia before, I did what we all do these days and googled it. On this site: http://www.videophilia.org/, I came across this definition:

videophilia: The new human tendency to focus on sedentary activities involving electronic media. Source:Pergams, O. R. W. and P. A. Zaradic. 2006. Is love of nature in the US becoming love of electronic media? 16-year downtrend in national park visits explained by watching movies, playing video games, internet use, and oil prices. Journal of Environmental Management 80:387-393.

Basically we are spending less time appreciating and experiencing nature and more time immersed in the digital world.

You might have an amazing garden in second life, but does it smell and feel like the real thing? Not yet anyway.

So take some time today to stop and smell the roses or feel the grass in your toes.

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