The question of what do we want children to do with technology You can respond by seeing this image that I found on Twitter and that I can't resist commenting on Peques and More. And it is that children can use technology, says the image, making prezis (a tool for making very active and dynamic presentations), make blogs, create word clouds, publish video content using images and music, draw on flipcharts (a kind of whiteboard to present and sort ideas), produce videos, publish content on educational networks, use blackboards and develop applications, maybe as that everyone is talking about, make an application for mobile devices!
However, the other vision presented is what can really be done working with technology, such as driving the critical vision, starting conversations, finding answers, creating alliances, changing the way of thinking, building different things, moving to action and directing change. And, says the image, technology is a help to get something and not learning more in the training program.
For many people it seems that digital natives are those kids who are capable of handling technology superbly, and although it may be so, really the challenge of digital natives and the teachers who deal with them! (also from fathers / mothers) is to get that see that technology allows you to do different things as we do today. And probably more simply and efficiently. And do it not only when they are small but also when they grow up.
There are already companies, that is Google, that are working to make our lives easier for everyone. In Google knows that the human brain has limitations and that technology can offer us help to make life easier, that we have more time to do other things, that we have fun with experiences and that we also want to share them.
And that starts working since childhood with technology, integrating it into the learning process, participating with the kids, teaching them how to create and discover and get them to enjoy technology.
