Posted on 12/28/2013 10:45:05 AM PST by upchuck
Edited on 12/28/2013 11:48:05 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Tablet computers are so easy to use that even a 3-year-old can master them.
And that has some pediatricians and other health experts worried.
Since navigating a tablet generally doesn't require the ability to type or read, children as young as toddlers can quickly learn how to stream movies, scroll through family photos, etc.
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It should have teachers unions worried. :)
Like it or not we're evolving and the increasing technology is leading the way. Kids today are so far ahead of their adults in using today's tech stuff, and they have to be since they're the ones who are going to improve on it.
It is what it is and there is no sense fighting it. Look at the evolution of television and phones.......
Personally, I'm falling further and further behind the times in terms cell phones. I've got my first cell, a Motorola Razr, and when I was at my niece's house for Christmas day, they showed me their phones. Niece's husband has a Smart Phone and my other nephew has an Android.
The nephew literally conducts all of his business (he's an estimator for a huge construction company) via his phone!
A hand held phone device that can send/receive emails, text msgs., browse the internet, provide GPS directions, weather reports, news reports, flash news updates, scan grocery bar codes, provide music to your car.............etc, etc........HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
Just look where we have come in the past 10 years regarding cell phones and imagine what is in store for us during the next 20 years..........
Technology has its benefits as well as it's pitfalls but I tend to embrace it and look forward to what it has to offer us in the future.....
As much as I would love to upgrade to modern phone technology, I'm stuck in fear mode...........
Why... of course. You must be correct.
(LOL)
Our grandchildren split time between electronics devices, and actual physical playtime that includes helping grandma bake and grandpa with gardening. It's a shame if kids are only stuck on the video gadgets. They need to learn by working alongside people. One of our granddaughters is almost two and spends a lot of time creating oil paintings (one of her daddy's hobbies). Another is just turning two and is learning music, playing harmonica and piano with family members. There is more out there than video gadgets.
“HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?”
haha, they are pretty amazing little devices! I play a game called “Ingress” on an Android smartphone. This game is quite remarkable. I could describe it as an “augmented reality, real-time, massively multi-player game that is played globally - the main goal is to control territory for your team”. I guarantee you that places you go to have been transformed into “Portals” within this game (public places; churches, bars, sculptures, etc.). To interact with a portal you must *physically” go to that location, it makes you walk/drive/get out and about :) Sometimes you’ll bump into an enemy agent! It’s a game you can play wherever you travel, earth over. It does a good job of making you feel that the smartphone is really a “scanner” into another world that you can’t usually see...you can even wave it around like flashlight to see the “secret world” LOL.
That said, for the game to work it requires;
* The Internet
* GPS
* Electronic Gyroscopes
* Highly powerful embedded computers
* High quality displays with touch
* Wireless Internet capability
* Powerful servers to handle game coordination
* etc...
When I think about playing a game that is using all that technology, it really makes you wonder what is possible.
My three youngest children learned to read using my iPad. We bought cheap tablets last year for Christmas for them to share. They broke one, almost broke a second, and have been banned from using them since. They really are not a child’s toy. A nice educational, tool, though.
My hubby and I finally plunged into the world of smartphones a month ago. We are still learning, but it is a powerful tool. We just learned how to stream YouTube videos from our phones to our TV. So much to learn, it’s fascinating. We had fear about the phone bill!
Give your babies and grandbabies wooden blocks to play with now and by highschool they will be outcreating the other 99%. Make makers.
I read cuneiform.
The middle one says, “Worthless without pictures”.
Better yet, as your babies grow older, force them to use rotary dial telephones and watch non-digital black and white televisons....... That will certainly accelerate them to the head of the class...../s
If you need someone to fix your furnace, plumbing, AC, automobile, or whatever... po-jama boy ain't going to get it done with his google glasses.
Amen!
And in the plumbing of the not too distant future, not even your plumber will be able to fix what ailes your system unless he's trained in the advanced electronics that today's children are getting their foothold in..........
Buggy whips and horse drawn carriages went out of style many years ago so you can raise your children in the modified lifestyle of the Amish if you wish.......I don't know of too many Amish folks who even have cable television............LOL!
Probably, government licensed experts.
I’ve long been convinced “learning cartoons” train kids into thinking education is supposed to always be fun and games and ruining them for serious effort towards learning.
My biggest issue is the everybody wins scenarios throughout the “learning” cartoons. The old Mickey Mouse cartoons my kids watch include the angry Donald Duck and evil Pete. Some of the cartoons have characters that use guns (insert pearl-clutching gasp here).
Right. My boys are always doing their algebra and programming, every time I ask.
Especially when they crank out a "study" to prove their findings.
I used to have to listen to detail men/women regarding medications. Take my word for it, three competing drugs can each be shown to be the best. All it takes is a study that emphasizes it’s best attributes, and in truth it can be considered best on that point with the data. The other two can do exactly the same thing.
Studies are very misleading, and those running them like it that way.
Experts are most often merely hucksters trying to hoodwink individuals and groups.
Go look up apps DragonBox and Kodable.
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