Children unimaginative? Who has imaginary friends? Who dreams of going to the moon or becoming a superhero? Who are the ones that always find some way to entertain themselves with hardly anything at hand? Children. Calling children dumb and unimaginative is very inaccurate. It's outright ludicrous.
a child's imagination is directly related to the literature they are introduced to as they grow up. They are
taught and encourages to be imaginative. they arent' naturally imaginative.
a child wouldn't know what a superhero was if not introduced to superhero stuff, and again, the notion of imaginary friends come from their exposure to similar types of media available out there where odinary individuals regularly associate themselves with extraordinary ones.
those aren't natural behavioural developments of kids but the influence of us as adults on them, especially in the west. Take a kid from the middle of the jungle with no form of literary fun or education and see if they are as imaginative as a child from over here. This is my point really that the form of books in us influences them and children aren't latently imagniative beings.
They aren't educated but they're children and lack of education doesn't mean dumb. Every last thing you listed is a direct result of learning and education but it doesn't mean they're dumb because they aren't yet capable of it. They have to be taught. Reading out of a book or being taught it orally or from a computer or through some kind of holographic virtual room, it doesn't matter as long as it's in a format they can comprehend and relate to.
and again, this thread isn't about educational techniques to engage children, its about understanding the basics of other forms.
i.e. musically how certain chords are used to imply mooding, the influence of tempo or beats per minute optimised for a dance track, the best pitch and decibel ranges to imply certain emotive responses.
or why certain musician have influenced their timeframes and future timeframes they operated in.
in a sense, that would be a music literature and language course, which as the thread starter said, is taught at a degree level but isn't introduced beforehand.
you are saying technology would make learning this easier, which is fine or dandy but it plays no part on WHEN it should be learnt (or if it should be learnt at all), which brings us back to square one of this dicussion.
