The Internet As An Open Library – Why Are The Young Ones Evidently Enjoying It While We The Old Ones Are Largely Ignoring The Hidden Treasures?

The Internet is an open door to any kind of information, or dis-information. We adults eveywwhere via the Internet should be learning more while the children are all scrolling & schooling!

What’s missing in the above image of young ones focused on their individual digital spaces in the Internet, no crowding? (image from sg.images.search.yahoo.com). The Search for Entertainment is obviously there, if invisible; the Search for Knowledge is anything but obvious.

If you ask me, what’s missing is an adult with his/her gadget roaming the vast spaces of the digital “universe” – not simply “world” – pursuing one’s own agenda of knowledge.

And the above image, which I now title “Internet Youth,” you can view it this way:

You see how I look at the same scene as the person selling any of those gadgets? I’m selling knowledge while s/he is selling devices!

The Teacher that I am says: “Today, Learning is not simply Schooling. It is roving the vast digital world of knowledge and determining for yourself what is True and what is False – or Maybe.

Scrolling is exploring the vast, largely unexplored universe of the Internet – and you don’t know what you learn until you do!

The Internet companies are not really targeting the families, only the ones whose members they believe would be most interested in modern gadgets: young son, eldest daugther, young daughter, eldest son… not to mention friends from faraway places.

At first glance, the top image is a welcome scene – everyone busy in one’s own world, not disturbing anyone else!

Do we now have enough gadgets in the Philippines? Says our source:

“In the Philippines, “households with access to the Internet rose to 13.56 million nationwide last year, or 28.8 percent, from the 17.7 percent in 2019, according to a survey conducted by the Philiippine Statistics Authority and the Department of Information and Communications Technology.“

Here is the news, “No Internet Access,” Philippine Star 21 July 2025:

Households with access to the Internet rose to 13.56 million nationwide last year, or 28.8 percent, from the 17.7 percent in 2019, according to a survey conducted by the Philiippine Statistics Authority and the Department of Information and Communications Technology.

While any improvement is a positive development, it’s still disheartening to know that more than half of households nationwide still lack Internet access in the digital age. This lack of access to one of the basic learning tools can only aggravate the education crisis that the country faces.

To this digital hound, I am more concerned about cultivating the soil with those who have gadgets and yet use them merely or mostly to talk to people and while away the time.

Schoolteachers have to teach beyond the classroom!

And local governments have to assist families so that they can have Internet anytime!

What the teachers can teach in terms of excavenging the wealth of the Internet is how a student can discover one’s wished-for riches in terms of knowledge and skills!@517