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What’s covered in today’s show
I explore from birth to age 20, all the cool things young people growing up now can experience through technology. From your mom emailing around your ultrasound to you doing research on a future crush online, how are things different?
- My friend’s son, Alec, knows how to work a webcam and apply filters. He’s 5 years old!
- 9 year old programs iphone application for his little sister
My early experiences with computers involved the Atari 2600 at my daycare center in Calhoun Square…Kinderplatz. I played Pitfall Harry, Joust and Donkey Kong. In junior high, it was Oregon Trail and Odell Lake. Not until 8th grade did I sit in front of a computer for actual productivity and that’s when I learned to type without looking at the keyboard.
- The TV show series, CSI, helps people understand technology
- Computers are at every library and the terminals are always full
Resources
- Free Typing Test and Online Course at Learn2Type.com
- 5 online Coloring Book Websites for Kids
- Play Oregon Trail online (Turn down your speakers!)
- Play Odell Lake online (Turn down your speakers!)
- Kidsclick.com Kid friendly search with no advertising
I’m a teacher (Spanish BTW… lol!). Yesterday I was in the library talking to a colleague who was monitoring “academic study hall” which is an after school, “detention-like” program to keep chronic “no homework” kids & have them make up work…meant to be a serious thing…..
A student asked my colleague to go on the computer to look up a map to fill in a blank map worksheet for history class. (Kids are not “allowed” to get on the computers during academic, as they will just mess around and not do their work.)
Well my colleague replied…”well look right there (2 feet from us) there is a World Atlas…you can use that and look up your map!”
Just wanted to share this with you…kids now days have no clue about some “basics” we took for granted in school.
Tech rocks…but it’s changing out lives.
Shout out to your comments: Passing notes!!! OMG I was the queen..now my students don’t bother b/c of texting “sexting” unfortunately.
FYI: I was i school when a floppy disk was really floppy and Appleworks was “da bomb”. LOL!!!
Today, ….Yes, tech rocks in my classroom. I use an LCD projector hooked up to computer and use an Smart airliner almost every day…yes to teach Spanish…:) Can’t live w/o them. And online grading system this year makes my life easier too….ah tech I love you and hate you sometimes.
TY for sharing! :)
-N. Homa
Utica, NY aka Sevilla90 on Twitter
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Adria Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
@Natasha Homa aka @Sevilla90,
That’s hilarious! I’ve only heard about the “sexting” on CSI. People and kids can be really resistant to learning. They think, “What’s in it for me?” and may see it as being “forced” to do something they don’t want.
But hey, I was a disruptive kid. Once I got kicked out of class and regular schools, I found, LNAS, an “alternative high school”. I finally was happy in an educational setting that sustained my interest by challenging my mind to think! I started attending post secondary classes and really put in my full effort at that place.
I hope to immerse myself in Spanish by going to a country where that’s all they speak. 2 years of high school Spanish didn’t stick for me.
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Watching at Askadria.com: Growing up without the Internet http://bit.ly/qBlZZ
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