How to Teach Tech to Kids Part 1
Do you remember what it was like when you are a kid? That is of course, if you still are and then guessing from the comments that I get on a lot of the You Tube videos and certainly on my blog at chris.pirillio.com.
But most of my audience happens to be under the age of 21. It is okay. I mean, we can converse and talk tech with one another online through email or the chat room and whatnot. If we were not ever to meet in real life, it is not like we would hangout it would just be very awkward, extremely awkward, for me, maybe not so much for you if you are a kid, but that is the great thing about the internet is you can be mature no matter what age and of course the opposite has certainly been prove in time and again.
I do have an email here from Amy Brier the top five reasons, it is imperative to let your kids use technology. So if you are an adult and you are curious, and you know, should I let my kids use tech or if your kid trained to convinced your legal guardian, “Hey, this is why I need to use technology”. Here have some points that help you along.
Now, I going to leave out, Amy’s initial story here but certainly quote it in the corresponding blog post when this goes online. Just right go to the tip.
Number five, letting your child use technology early in life for allow you to instill a respect not a fear for technology, the difference between respect and fear is that fear prevents you from dong something. Respect allows you to use a gadget knowing the full power in consequences of using it for both good and bad. It is very true.
When I was in college, it kind a shocked me, how many people really did not want to get on the internet. Like they afraid of it, they barely even knew how the word processor granted it was like 1992 but by then computers are been around long enough. Maybe not, today though I can not imagine a college campus where someone did not want to get on the internet, I guess it is just a matter of how you were raised or if the tech was there it is certainly, I do not know the youngest in the chat room right now. Looks like Andrew12 is apparently 11 which is odd. So at 11 years old, my God! When I was in college, when I graduated from college, you had not even been born yet Andrew that is sad.
Number four, it would help them advance in school at a faster rate. In that I do believe in. Kids are often made to do testing on the computers and if it is a part of their early life they are less intimidated by it by the time they are facing technology in the classroom.
I would say that familiarity certainly would breed some amount of confidence and hopefully some amount of confidence with that. You have to make sure though, and this is coming from me wearing my teacher hat, not my parent hat because I am not parent and I am saying how you should raise your kids.
But, in an educational environment, you know, as long as you are there as a guide post, instead of just saying, “Here, there is the computer, there is the internet have at it,” that is the wrong way to approach it. You know, you are not doing your job as a teacher if you just said, “Here, read this book.” You have to guide, you have to be there and open those lines of communication and most importantly this kind of calls back for our first point, there is relevance to technology. You do not just say, “Here is the tool,” you say, “Here is the tool. And here is how you use it, here is what it could be used for,” but you hopefully give that child the ability to decide for him or for him or herself how to use it and as long as you inspire instead of constrict, I think, you will find that a child would be far more open minded to learning on his or her own then leaving you without fear of than using of it the wrong way.
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