The psychological development of children is amazing. If only they became potty trained sooner.
One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad
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Re: One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad
#52What 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?
I know of one 1yo who loves scrolling back and forth on pages of text on his parents' iPods.
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#53What 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...
Not necessarily this one instance, but many people that I've talked to tend to credit Jobs with many technical achievements, if not everything Apple ever did.
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#54What 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.
I wasn't being 100% direct either. The author still credited, or better yet, blamed Jobs for something he didn't actually do-- design the iPad. It seems pretty common, at least with non-techheads, that "Steve Jobs" is used interchangeably with "Apple".
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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.
We're all born scientists. Then religion and TV happen.
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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…
Next to the staggering complexity of learning how to drive a human body, and learning human language more-or-less from scratch, flicking, logging in, and getting to favorite episodes is a parlor trick. The only reason we think it's amazing is because of the number of adults we interact with that have decided that they are "technologically incompetent" and refuse to interact with technology and just throw their hands up. If 2-year-olds benefit from anything here, it's not coming with pre-existing notions of what they can't do.
Which can also be overromanticized; my two-year-old once demonstrated that he did not have a preconception about how unwise it is to stand up on a kitchen chair and throw yourself at the back with all your strength. He has what you might call a postconception now.
I think this shock that a two-year-old could drive an iPad in simple ways says more about the adults and the poor quality of their ideas about children than much about the children themselves.
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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…
This is what it'll look like though. Till now we've debated about putting computers in classrooms. Now it's going to be ridiculous to consider stripping him of his many computers, especially when taking him to the learning place.
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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.
Ah, so you're complaining that he was actively interacting with his target program (painting) instead of passively interacting with it (watching and 'consuming' a film, whatever 'consuming' means in that context).
Depending on which way you want to spin it, you could claim the ipad is better (omg! kid does less work and gets to sit back entertained!) or worse (omg! kid has lost the ability to actively create something, become a passive consumer instead!).
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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.
Ah, so you're complaining that he was actively interacting with his target program (painting) instead of passively interacting with it (watching and 'consuming' a film, whatever 'consuming' means in that context). Depending on which way you want to spin it, you could claim the ipad is better (omg! kid does less work and gets to sit back entertained!) or worse (omg! kid has lost the ability to actively create somethin…
No I wasn't diminishing anything i was just saying the context of interaction and media consumption changes dramatically and what is normal for a two year old to figure out on their own will likewise change dependent on the affordances of the tools.