Watching the video's this week of the children bought back memories of myself as a children. Wanting to explore and learn all I could about new technologies.
Technology has grown so much from when my parents were children and even to now when I was a child in the 80's to the now with my own children growing up in the 2000's. I enjoyed watching the 3rd video of children exploring the old Rotary telephone, and laughed at some of the comments the children answered with. I just had the share this video on my Facebook page for all my friends to watch and get a giggle out as well.
The 2nd video, I thought to myself while watching this was WOW!!! These children are so smart and I would of loved to attend one of these workshops. Seeing the children's faces light up when there creations worked, you could see the sense of achievement and accomplishment on their faces.
The 1st video made me think of my own girls, to my flat mates little boy to what will our baby be doing and exploring as they grow over the years to come. You can see the toddler girl has used an Ipad/Iphone before and has that finger movement programmed in her brain to make things happen on the screen, however when looking at the magazine, swiping her finger across did not make anything happen to the picture. Maybe in the distant future this might occur but we aren't there yet. Going back to my own girls they were older when they explored the new iphones and touch screen so knew that this would not work in a book or magazine however my flatmates boy was under one when he already could unlock his father's iphone and find the Peppa Pig app. Between 2 and 3 years now he has learnt further to find youtube and watch Peppa Pig episodes himself. Just scares me to think how much technology is taking over our lives and how we will be living 10 years, 20 years to 50 years time.
With hands on experience I feel children learn technology best. Not having a teacher up the front going through the ABC's and 123's of technology. This is how I learnt myself growing up, I taught myself by exploring, having a go, and trial and error. As I understood technology well, others would come to me for guidance even the teachers at times.
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