Saturday, July 9, 2011

Ah, childhood

My great-niece Mila is having a much different childhood experience than did I, or her grandfather (my brother). For us, Mom or Dad had to turn on the TV and find the channel. Mila just sets up the iPad and tunes into a Netflix video of an educational program teaching letters, numbers and colors.

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  1. Hi Val,
    My niece Zoe has been using a computer since she was 3. It amazes they learn that so fast. Have a great day!

    Sherrie

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  2. A whole new world, every generation.

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  3. I think you have her running your online course while you are away on the Queen Mary!

    I hear some schools are emphasizing keyboard instruction while de-emphasizing cursive writing, which I think is a shame. I'm not a big fan of phonetic spelling and acronyms. I like to see complete sentences and not texting! Btw I'm Lol!

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  4. Isn't it amazing how much things have changed just in our lifetime....think of generations to come!

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  5. Children do have the world at their fingertips these days.

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  6. I heard the same thing as Steven. Sad....there should be room for both, but typing is definitely needed. I taught myself as an adult out of a book "bat bat bat, cat cat cat, sat sat sat". Oy.

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  7. So much information and misinformation is about, hope there are good programs that teach critical thinking!

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  8. Everything that they think is fun needs to be plugged in somewhere, achieving a healthy balance with this and physical activity is the challenge.

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