Hello readers if you exist. I'm not dead! It's been forever since I've updated and it'll probably be longer since Blogger has changed it's whole outlook and I'll have to take time and effort into figuring out how this all works *clenches fist and refrains from using machine gun on computer*
My sister and her darling children were visiting for the weekend and I've noticed something very peculiar. When I took out my iPad and started taking self shots of me with baby Indy, he observed what I was doing and began pressing the screen. Then, he flipped through my pictures and could easily tell the difference between picture and video. Later, he figured out tapping the camera button on the right takes a picture. Now my iPad is filled with self shots that were taken by an almost one year old. I then noticed, as he was pressing the buttons on the old T.V. remote, he figured out one of the remotes turned on the T.V. If you handed him a T.V. remote instead of a wii remote he would know the wii mote operates the wii. What I find fascinating about this is the face he learned all of this within half an hour and I didn't say a single word.
In the car on the way to the airport he loved to play with the water bottle but I knew my mother would be very angry if the water spilled in her brand new car she paid for with hard earned money. Baby Indy figured out if he wanted to drink the water he'd have to unscrew the cap clockwise and if he wanted to just play with the water bottle he'd have to screw the cap counter clockwise. Once again he learned this just through observation within 3-5 minutes and repeated "no"'s. I then began to wonder how we as striving people could learn to pass as much information as we can down to the future generations through observations. If an almost one year old could figure out how to operate an iPad, turn on the wii mote and associate the buttons with the controls and sounds from the T.V., and distinguish clock wise from counter-clockwise just through observation, how much could we really teach the kids of the future? Could there be a way to teach them the periodic table of elements, names of all the types of clouds, and imperative equations like f=ma, before they turn five years old without directly forcing them to learn? If this is possible what could it mean for the future? That's what I want to know and hope to see.
-Just Jane
"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths" - Meet The Robinsons
My sister and her darling children were visiting for the weekend and I've noticed something very peculiar. When I took out my iPad and started taking self shots of me with baby Indy, he observed what I was doing and began pressing the screen. Then, he flipped through my pictures and could easily tell the difference between picture and video. Later, he figured out tapping the camera button on the right takes a picture. Now my iPad is filled with self shots that were taken by an almost one year old. I then noticed, as he was pressing the buttons on the old T.V. remote, he figured out one of the remotes turned on the T.V. If you handed him a T.V. remote instead of a wii remote he would know the wii mote operates the wii. What I find fascinating about this is the face he learned all of this within half an hour and I didn't say a single word.
In the car on the way to the airport he loved to play with the water bottle but I knew my mother would be very angry if the water spilled in her brand new car she paid for with hard earned money. Baby Indy figured out if he wanted to drink the water he'd have to unscrew the cap clockwise and if he wanted to just play with the water bottle he'd have to screw the cap counter clockwise. Once again he learned this just through observation within 3-5 minutes and repeated "no"'s. I then began to wonder how we as striving people could learn to pass as much information as we can down to the future generations through observations. If an almost one year old could figure out how to operate an iPad, turn on the wii mote and associate the buttons with the controls and sounds from the T.V., and distinguish clock wise from counter-clockwise just through observation, how much could we really teach the kids of the future? Could there be a way to teach them the periodic table of elements, names of all the types of clouds, and imperative equations like f=ma, before they turn five years old without directly forcing them to learn? If this is possible what could it mean for the future? That's what I want to know and hope to see.
-Just Jane
"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths" - Meet The Robinsons
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