When I was scrolling through different article titles one caught my eye that I thought sounded interesting "Techno-toddlers: A is for Apple" with "More pre-schoolers know how to use a smartphone than tie their shoelaces." written underneath it. This article is about young children becoming very adept at learning to use smart phones and iPads. The author Thomas Jones writes about how he went to watch a group of children between the ages of two and six test out new apps designed for toddlers. The children grasp the concept of the games quickly and are able to point out all the faults with them. He also writes about how his own one year old daughter is able to unlock his smart phone and browse through photos and videos, she is also perfectly able to work an iPad finding games she likes and learning how to play them.
The article continues to talk about how all the large app developing companies have started making apps specifically designed towards toddlers and young children. According to the information in the article more children between the ages of two and five know how to play computer games than swim or ride a bike and a survey by Plymouth council found that 72% of children under the age of five spent half an hour a day on the internet.
I feel that it is kind of crazy that children this young are so proficient at using things like iPads and iPhones nowadays, even though I'm not particularly old at all I still think it is strange for a child less than five years old being able to have such command over something so complex. When I was three or four years old I doubt I would have been able work out how to turn on a computer let alone be able to spend half an hour trawling the internet. This is all happeninng because technology is evolving so fast, as it says in the article by the time these children who are four or five years old now reach adulthood or their teenage years even, technology will have adapted so much that things like the iPad will seem like an old fashioned invention.
Here is the link to the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/18/techno-toddlers-a-for-apple
This is the road to obesity. Oh well at least you'll fit in. Despite my witty comment I did find this quite interesting.
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