As a parent, I would be very wary of exposing a child that small to any screen for extended periods of time.
One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad
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Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad
#42To 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…
Here's a great TED talk discussing how babies this age go about learning how to deal with the world. Essentially there's a lot of experimentation as other folks have commented on but there's a part towards the end about how they seem to use a super sophisticated statistical model of the world to figure out the odds of things working. http://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think....
Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad
#43I remember reading an article of the difference between 2 year olds and 3 year olds. A two year old will see a picture of a shoe and try to put their foot in it whereas a 3 year old realizes that the picture is only a picture.
I imagine the 1 year old in the video is also falling into the 2 year old trap. But as people have commented this is just how learn and how our brains develop.
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#44My kid tries to pinch zoom everything. Laptops, books, television remotes.
You have to admit, the discoverability of pinch-to-zoom is almost nonexistant. It's impossible to tell if something supports it without trying.
Whoa, i never tried until now.. apparently my mac book air has pinch zoom.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You weren't watching and consuming full length feature films on a Mac+. Neither was I.
Context is one thing (i.e., mouse, keyboard, MacPaint) and I agree that two year olds adapt to context amazingly.
Media is another thing entirely though. Context and media in intuitive ways will have far reaching ramifications.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The best part of this was when she tested to see if her finger was still working. This kid is awesome.
My son (not quite 2) engages in all these same behaviors. He pokes things, points at things, touches things, checks to make sure his finger is still attached, pokes things some more... and he's been doing it since long before he was allowed to touch the tablet computer.
Sometimes when he touches, say, pictures in a newspaper or magazine, he's just trying to get daddy's input (same as when he touches something in a board book.) He touches a picture, and I'll say "it's a blue car!" or "what a furry kitty!" You might mistake it for "thinking the newspaper is a broken tablet", but not for long.
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#47related but happened to me: once I tried to open my house door with my car remote key =)
27 year old thinks his house is a broken car?
Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad
#48My 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.
Yup. I clean tiny swipe prints off of my TV every time I'm done babysitting my 18 month old niece.
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#49She is not very effective in using that iPad, though.
You should see my niece, 18 months old. She can unlock my iPad and find Netflix or Angry Birds as fast as I can. Now of course she needs help past that, but still.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You weren't watching and consuming full length feature films on a Mac+. Neither was I. Context is one thing (i.e., mouse, keyboard, MacPaint) and I agree that two year olds adapt to context amazingly. Media is another thing entirely though. Context and media in intuitive ways will have far reaching ramifications.
But that's because there weren't full-length feature films for Mac+.