#DISCOVERY ZONE HOW TO#
It can be fun when you learn quickly how to use the product. I think that it can be a fun, yet traumatic at times. I believe that you can learn new technologies as long as you want to. The only thing I have ever used a computer for was research on the internet or if it was school related. I am considered a late adopter among my friends, especially when it comes to computers. You can learn how to use something by someone else teaching you by reading on how to use the product, or investigating the product by yourself until you know how it works. I believe that you can learn technologies through many different methods. In the future I think that more people will be technologically literate because students are learning how to use technological items at an earlier age, opposed to my generation or my parent’s generation who did not learn how to use these items at a young age. I think that knowing exactly how to use an item is being technologically literate. Little did I know that I was interacting with technology. I saw him as an amazing toy who could actually read to me. When I was a child one of my favorite toys was Teddy Rumpskin. As a child I had technology that ranged from the smallest things such as a toy that was battery operated to big things such as the big foot power wheels that I used to conquer the world in, well at least I conquered my own yard in it. Technology is around when you don’t even realize what technology is because you are a small child. He also had fun as got to recapture his glory days as a young man.īelow is an exerpt from my technology autobiography: I had fun with my grandfather doing the interview.
He told me his favorite technological toy in his childhood was his gun, and then added with a smile on his face that he wants a sports car in the near future. Once I explained to him that it can be anything such as a toy or a tool. At first he did not really grasp what technology was. I asked him a lot of questions about technology such as what technology he had as a kid, and what it he wants in the future. To be honest he has not turned on a computer in his life. It was awesome interviewing my grandfather, kind of funny too. Here is an excerpt from my interview with someone over 65 about their life and the techonolgy that went along with it.
#DISCOVERY ZONE FULL#
" For the full interview please click here. Other than the party line the most popular gadgets he had in his house was a toaster and can opener. He also described the party line as the "coolest thing going," he shared a telephone line with four or five surrounding houses. Kittredge desperately wanted a car with an automatic transmission and recalls how hard he had to work in order to finally get his hands on one. Throughout his life he thought of the radio, party lines, and automatic transmissions as technology.
Kittredge found his fun by shooting trees and cans out in the woods with his gun. Kittredge vividly remembers growing up as kid with his BB gun, he described how, "Kids today just play inside their houses, watching and playing, tv, video games, and movies." When he was younger, he went outside to look for fun as well as an adventure. As I was asking the first couple questions and him having no idea what they meant, I thought to myself, "Wow, this is going to be really hard writing a three to five paper on enjoy computers or really anything to do with it" Kittredge is a simple man who does not even know how to turn on a computer, though as we thought more about the definition of technology and coming to the conclusion that it just does not mean computers and hi-tech gadgets, we opened up a flood of information. "Interviewing my grandfather, Jim Kittredge, was really hard as I had to explain every question and drag an answer out of him. I know I enjoyed it and I hope you did too. Using a blog in this fashion can be an excellent experience. There is something to be said for patience and slowness in communications sometimes. When one responds instantly to a fax or a text message or an email one often regrets what was said. I think it affords the respondent(as in the famous corrspondence between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams) the chance to think about what they want to say, the chance to reflect on it and refine it before saying it. People think that is a hardship, but I do not. One advantage I find in communicating via a blog is the opportunity it gives one to reflect on their comments before they post it(read blurt it out in face to face conversation) and I am reminded that this country was founded when our forefathers had a communication system that took weeks to deliver responses. Communication is the key to growth and understanding. Baylen to let me help with the next one as well as another project in the Spring) and I sincerely hoped you discovered one important thing. This blogging experience is coming to an end for you and for me(except I asked Dr.
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