As technology becomes more integrated into adult lives, it becomes completely enmeshed into the lives of children. With this as a premise I would like to tie two posts together.
First - In the Parlance of Our Times: It's a Victimless Crime. This post has to do with completing crossword puzzles using Google or Wikipedia as they are both readily available to online crossword puzzle doers.
Second - Digital Kids an article from news.com.com, that starts out.
"When Amy Jo Kim's son Gabriel says he wants to "watch videos," she knows he doesn't mean DVDs or television. He wants YouTube."
Last night during the, Superbowl, people were trying to figure out where Joseph Addai played college ball. My laptop was right there and I knew the answer was only a wikipedia search away. But I knew that I could not fire it up and find out. (He played at LSU btw) Why you ask? One word Sydney. If my three year old daughter would have seen me sitting with the laptop running she would instantly ask for NickJr, even though she really means noggin.com. These two sites have replaced her desire to watch old school TV. Don't get me wrong she still wants to watch TV but when I go to turn on Nick or Noggin on the good old idiot box she shakes her head and says "no daddy, I want to watch TV on your 'puter."
Thus, as my daughter and those like her move into the education system they will be expecting interactive learning like learning greater than/less than with Miffy playing "Who Has More" or beginning logic skills using Bert's Pigeon Patterns.
What will her expectations be of learning/connectivity by the time she reaches middle school, high school, or college?
Comments (1)
Good question. It just makes me feel old. I had to look up "ZOMG" on Google so that my wife wouldn't make fun of me when she sent me that remark and I wasn't sure what it meant. This makes me a "n00b".
Posted by Jason | February 6, 2007 12:59 PM
Posted on February 6, 2007 12:59