Small children understand technology faster and easier than some middle-aged adults. Why? Because they are digital natives. Marc Prensky does a whole presentation on the differences between digital natives and digital immigrants, and I’ve heard him speak at a couple of conferences. A lot of my outside-of-the-home job revolves around that, as we utilize this phenomenon in education.
The other day, JT asked to “look pictures Mom’s phone please.” I’ve shown him pictures on my phone before, but I let him have the phone this time. I have seen plenty of adults struggle at the Blackberry Storm finger-flick motion… my two year old had no trouble. More reading on digital natives and digital immigrants can be found here. 🙂
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