This presentation comfirms where our students are today. Many of them need little direction to be able to figure out technology. For instance, how many of them do you think have read the instruction manual for their video games. (Do such things even exits anymore??!) They just start playing. Soon they are addicted experts working they way up the top of the video game pyramid. A little bit of exposure goes a long ways -self taught and they can figure it out.
Contrast this to adults. We have a lot to get in the way of learning technology. We have to be shown every step, every click, every button along the way. Many times we over analyze every step trying to figure out the right way to do something.
Is this just the nature of adults vs children? The "No Fear" factor? Maybe it's not just technology, but every aspect of life. Or is it the teaching an old dog new tricks philosophy?? Probably all of the above. I think everything else in life gets in the way of devoting time to understanding technology. The younger generation hasn't had their brain clogged yet.
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Thanks for your comments on this TED film. It's inspired lots of spirit comments by others. You'll find you're not alone in your thinking. I wonder how we can avoid clogging kids' brains, as you've said, and just turn them loose? What we'd get from them, we probably can't control--and you know how educators love control! It's a hard one, though. Thanks for your contributions in class!
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