It amazes me the things that our Ladybug will not experience due to advances in technology. Getting up to change the channel on a TV that was huge and clunky looking with a blurry picture that was never blurry till you got a new one and saw the difference; driving 18 hours in the car with no TV, iPod's...how bout that good ol' 8 track?
Tim and I saw a little boy a few weeks ago with an iPad and it absolutely amazed us how fast he navigated through the apps and how it was so natural to him. After telling my mom about this kid and how Bug won't know what it's like to listen to the radio for hours just to hit record at the perfect time to get your favorite song on tape, my mom borrowed an iPad from work to see what Bug would do with it. What a hit!! We had one rule though...she was only allowed to hold it by herself on carpet. She picked up what to do with this new technology so fast! She played games with our assist and she really enjoyed the books that it read to her. AMAZING! I guess the Christmas list has its first item.
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Yeah, it is AMAZING! The kids in school these days are considered "digital natives". The other category of folks are "digital immigrants", which would be somewhere between our generation and our parents generation. I decided that we could be either - we are kind of on the edge of that change. We didn't grow up entirely with technology, but had it for most of our school days. The interesting conversation is about the "digital divide", which are the "digital immigrant" teachers who teach "digital native" students. Can you tell I've been learning stuff in grad school? :)
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