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Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by ethank » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:25 AM UTC

callmevlad wrote: post #9

ethank wrote: post #4

My kid tries to pinch zoom everything. Laptops, books, television remotes.

Same thing here. My daughters (1 and 2) walk up to the TV, and try to swipe to the next photo or touch the video to pause it.

What amazes me is how GOOD my son is on the iPad and iPhone. He turned 2 in June. He can unlock the phone, knows the passcode, can get into any app and knows the "flick" gesture. On his iPad, he can navigate to his Sesame Street episodes or random Pixar movies.

I learned computers on an Apple IIe and a Mac, and this is basically that for him. To think that by next year we'll have retina iPads, by the time he's "using" computers for things like school, it'll be like really bright paper.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by sumukh1 » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:26 AM UTC

HaloZero wrote: post #12

Whenever I show a friend a Kindle, their first instinct is to try to turn the page or click a menu option. I think for adults we just assume all electronics are touch screens now.

Totally true. And the Kindle Touch will just make it worse.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by Hominem » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:28 AM UTC

HaloZero wrote: post #12

Whenever I show a friend a Kindle, their first instinct is to try to turn the page or click a menu option. I think for adults we just assume all electronics are touch screens now.

Yep, I had to work hard to break myself of the habit of tapping my new kindle's screen.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by pork » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:31 AM UTC

dbbo wrote: post #8

What really bothered me was the uploader credited Steve Jobs with coding something.

So someone on the Internet thinking that Steve Jobs used to code really bothers you? Perspective, friend, perspective...

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by robterrell » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:32 AM UTC

techdemic wrote: post #19

What does a one-year old do on an iPad (or other tablet for that matter)? For those who are parents--are there certain apps/games you let your young ones play around on? Or, is the behavior demonstrated by the child in the video learned primarily by way of observation?

Definitely. There's a number of blogs dedicated to apps for toddlers. Not sure about a one-year-old, but my two-year-old was finger painting, dragging letters onto words, and rearranging dinosaur parts, and browsing YouTube for videos of trash trucks (he got his older sisters to enter the search terms). My original iPad is basically a dedicated kid computer. The older kids write school papers on it (Pages + keyboard dock), the younger kids play games (educational and otherwise) and sometimes Netflix videos. We do have an XO laptop, and it only gets dug out of the bin when one of the kids is playing "going to work" and needs a faux laptop to lug.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by runn1ng » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:33 AM UTC

She is not very effective in using that iPad, though.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by ArcticCelt » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:34 AM UTC

grannyg00se wrote: post #14

To say she thinks the magazine is a broken iPad is quite a leap. There is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is an iPad. And there is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is "broken". She is simply trying familiar gestures on a similar looking media. Give her magazines for the next couple of days and you may find she tries to turn the iPad over looking for other pages. It's not because she thinks the iPad is a…

Exactly. The only thing that this video proves is that she has the right reaction by analyzing and experimenting with different objects. That's how we learn.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by adriand » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:43 AM UTC

dbbo wrote: post #8

What really bothered me was the uploader credited Steve Jobs with coding something.

He also referred to her "OS", which as a human, she does not have: so he was speaking metaphorically.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by jameshart » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:44 AM UTC

A week or so after first encountering a Kinect, with its combination of gesture and voice recognition, my little boy was using a restaurant toilet with a touch-free flush, and after realising that it had flushed itself in response to his standing up, he turned round and said "toilet: flush!" to see if it also had voice control.

My son - admittedly the child of geeks, so maybe a little ahead of the curve - is growing up in a world where screens have always responded to touch; where devices can usually react to being tilted or moved; where you can control things through speaking, or gesturing.

Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

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Post by whatusername » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 1:51 AM UTC

ethank wrote: post #21

callmevlad wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same thing here. My daughters (1 and 2) walk up to the TV, and try to swipe to the next photo or touch the video to pause it.

What amazes me is how GOOD my son is on the iPad and iPhone. He turned 2 in June. He can unlock the phone, knows the passcode, can get into any app and knows the "flick" gesture. On his iPad, he can navigate to his Sesame Street episodes or random Pixar movies. I learned computers on an Apple IIe and a Mac, and this is basically that for him. To think that by next year we'll have retina iPads, by the time he's "using…

I learned computers on a Mac+. At two I could load the disk into the drive, load up Paint Shop Pro, "paint" a painting.

The lesson isn't that iDevice's (or apple products) are amazingly intuitive -- it's that 2 year olds are quite smart and good at learning/playing/exploring.