Technology and your child

[TofiBaba]

Re: Technology and your child

Be not afraid of bits and bytes for the future will be dark and every bit will then bite. (Niksik, Friday, August 3, 2012)

I'm so stealing this (with proper credit). Don't be suing me :)

[Niksik]

Re: Technology and your child

You can steal without credit too. I don’t know any good lawyers !

[Lilly]

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@Niksik

I’m not sure what they’ll become.

I’ll tell you, when I used to work full time at a hospital, part of what I used to do was putting together presentation material for the physicians. It was so hard for some of them to do a simple and effective slideshow right from a laptop hooked up to a projector instead of loading the 35mm slides on a carousel and hooking it up to a projector which was not only costly but once u got a slide, u can’t change it at that point. The tech savvy ones were happy and moved up quickly. What I’m trying to say is that if we train our kids to adapt early on in life, whatever profession they are in, they will assimilate easily. There’s technology everywhere. Look at schools now. My 6 year old operates a smart board with ease. She has to. It’s the need of the times. In the words of the Borg, resistance is futile!

My sister told me about this family, both parents are docs , their 3 kids, 2 sons and 1 daughter all are docs. OK, first son didn’t want to study medicine but they forced him to go in medicine. He completed A levels in 5 years which normally people finish in 2 years. They pushed him to must study science and be a doctor.Finally, he has become a doctor ,God knows after how many years. When i heard this story , I told my sister ayyh no you better let your child study what they like to. No point of forcing them or to make some thing must for them that they don’t have interest in.
If kids are interested in some field since their childhood, I bet you they 'll find no difficulty afterwards. And same goes for your girls,they seem interested, do send them in IT.

@TofiBaba

People were saying that ebooks and technology adaptation by older adults is going to be slow. But now I see that everywhere. Very soon you won’t be able to go out of the house without knowing tech. Don’t compare tomorrow with how our training was. The rate of change in technology is getting faster. What happened in 50 years started happening in 10 years, what used to change in 5 years now progress in 1. Think about it, 7 years ago there was no iPhone, 5 years ago there was Facebook.

Amish still live on, don’t bring that culture into our community!

Yes Tofi baba, technology is developing day by day and everyone better keep themselves updated with it rather coming here and asking Tofi for some help.

[Niksik]

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Lippy, I have no problems with whatever they want to be. A few days ago my choti wanted to be a cashier because she thought she would have easier access to money and could buy her mommy lots of things :D!!

[Lilly]

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^ Next week, she 'll say I want to become a game developer. These interests keep on changing with time.

[Niksik]

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@LiPpY

^ Next week, she 'll say I want to become a game developer. These interests keep on changing with time.

That will be cool tho!!!

[Niksik]

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Oh btw, I wanted to share this app I came across: HomeWork

play.google.com

HomeWork

HomeWork & TimeTable app for students. Widgets for timetable and homework...

Free

Downloaded this for my older kido. She’s been using a planner from school for her assignments, etc. for a while and I got her to manage a planner for other Islamic School activities and sport activities, etc. This looks like a good alternative for her paper planner as she can set reminders, get a complete visual picture of where’s she is at, what is urgent and what is important, and u can even plan and define your own lessons. Let’s see how well she adapts to it.

[Lilly]

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Good for kids to keep everything well organized. Total advance stuff, no time for it. I have opened a page on fb , I leave my reminders, notes etc there.Also, we have an other page on fb where we all students at course share our views and leave deadline dates, share notes etc.I found that quite helpful and interactive among mates.

[us1415]

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@LiPpY

Ayyh C? Noooooooooooo. Talk to me about JAVA. If you know that, you are passed. :k:

I know Java. Will that work even though I dont primarily program in it?

[Niksik]

Re: Technology and your child

Good for kids to keep everything well organized. Total advance stuff, no time for it. I have opened a page on fb , I leave my reminders, notes etc there.Also, we have an other page on fb where we all students at course share our views and leave deadline dates, share notes etc.I found that quite helpful and interactive among mates.

My kid isn't allowed on FB yet. Will wait for another few years for that. But great idea Lippy!