I’m a teacher but I’m also married to a fantastic husband and I’m a mother to 4 lovely children. My kids are the age from 12- 17. We are six persons in this home and we have all together 10 “computers”. Isn’t it shocking?? In the US more than 80% has a computer and allmost 92 % have internet access. My children has earned money and saved birthday presents until they had enough money to buy their own computer. The last edition to the “collection” was an eee-pad and a Galaxy tab at Christmas time. So has this development changed me, my kids, and my home and off course it has. To out of 4 kids are sporty and do some sports outside school. The other two are spending their time in front of the computer or other videogames.
Read about how kid become weaker!
Do I feel that I’m in control? No, I’m certainly not. Either way I want to control this I feel like I’m loosing. I can tell my kids to stop the indoor activity and go out and find some friends to hang out with. They turn it of and go out. When they come back several hours later, they are as happy as they can be. They just walked to another boy or girl in the class and used their computer instead.
Read about how kid become weaker! Do I feel that I’m in control? No, I’m certainly not. Either way I want to control this I feel like I’m loosing. I can tell my kids to stop the indoor activity and go out and find some friends to hang out with. They turn it of and go out. When they come back several hours later, they are as happy as they can be. They just walked to another boy or girl in the class and used their computer instead.
Even in school my view about ICT is change. Since my kids have their own computer it can look like that I’m expecting that everybody has a computer. The society revolves around ICT and the the other way around. It‘s not long before the bank doesn’t have money in the cash register. About 10-15 year ago my bank did all I needed it to do, paid my bills, transferred money and so on. Now I do all the work by using the internet bank. When the older people are dead, we don’t need the bank clerk at all. It’s seldom that I even have money in my wallet, because I can use my debit card wherever I go.
Let’s go back to the pupils at school. I have a tendency to give homework that includes a computer. It can be all from writing too free math games on the internet. It’s a way of showing that computers are more then games even in their spare time, but the answers I often get back is that: I didn’t have the time, it didn’t work, the internet connection didn’t work, my mother has the computer at her flat ect. The children are DIGITAL NATIVES (see this video), but there parents are not. Maybe that's the reason for the gap between how importent we think ICT are.
So is it society that has made these illusions in my head, that this digital world has come this far, but not far enough? I don’t know.
The only thing that I'm sure about is that times are a changing. Please look at this wonderful Youtubevideo about before and now.
Let’s go back to the pupils at school. I have a tendency to give homework that includes a computer. It can be all from writing too free math games on the internet. It’s a way of showing that computers are more then games even in their spare time, but the answers I often get back is that: I didn’t have the time, it didn’t work, the internet connection didn’t work, my mother has the computer at her flat ect. The children are DIGITAL NATIVES (see this video), but there parents are not. Maybe that's the reason for the gap between how importent we think ICT are.
So is it society that has made these illusions in my head, that this digital world has come this far, but not far enough? I don’t know.
The only thing that I'm sure about is that times are a changing. Please look at this wonderful Youtubevideo about before and now.
Hi Cicilie,
SvarSlett"Kids become weaker" - this sounds so much true. Yes, I do agree, promoting active lifestyles among the young should be one of the priorities in the digital era.
Beata