Some friends of ours gave Toe this child "laptop" last Christmas and he is just now beginning to really understand how to work it. It is a nice tool in that the games are a wide variety of levels, so he will be growing into it for a long time. The hardest part for months has been understanding how the mouse works. It is a tough concept - you move this thing over here and something happens on the screen. Very abstract.
He has done well with my itouch for months now. That one he gets. And the educational games that they make now are absolutely amazing. Toby is learning letters, addition, subtraction, sight words, all as he is just playing. I'm not one for video games but I am really impressed by the things that technology provides....
And I am astonished by how easily handling technology comes to him. I wonder if it is partially because children today are raised without that baggage of "computers are complicated and only for people who want to be programmers." That is certainly dating me. I recognize it has been decades since that was the case. I am able to use technology fairly well these days, but that baggage lingers in the back of my OS.
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