I came across these cartoons while searching the Web. I think they speak to what's happening around us and in our world as educators. We can no longer ignore that though it may be taking long to reach our individual classrooms, it is coming and our children are way ahead of us.
My last son is 2 years old, six years younger than Lemuel his second brother and 13 years younger than his eldest brother. My husband gives him his iPhone "to keep him quiet" in the car. Imagine my horror when I first say this occurance; after all this is a two-year-old who is bored quickly with one toy, dashes it to the ground and goes for another.
My husband observing my concern (to put it mildly) explains that Daniel will just get his Sesame Street videos, some back issues that my husband downloaded. I watched as the baby deftly used his little fingers to slide across the screen, touch the relevant icons to access "ABCD...Cookie Monster..." and sat laughing as the seen played out. When he had enough of that video, he didn't dash it to the ground, he went on to the next video.
Angela,I never cease to be amazed by the speed which our children learn how to get what they want. Remember they learn to interact with their environment in ways that we still do not comprehend.They learn to communicate in order to survive.I am beginning to believe that this is so true.They are born into a world of technology and they are able, in their emergent years, to adapt to it to survive.We, on the other hand, were not born in it so we are still learning to cope with the technology. We were born at a different time but we mastered our environments at that time, perhaps, to the amazement of our parents and grandparents then.
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