Tech-Savvy Baby Tries to Work Print Magazine as an iPad
- Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:18pm by
Liz Klimas
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Just like learning a different language where it’s important to start young, the tech language is no different.
Growing up with technology makes it second mature to kids. Children now know after you take a picture of them to run behind you and see the preview on the screen. There are computer games geared toward age “infant.” But what happens when they’re presented with “artifacts” of the old school world?
They don’t know how to use them just as much as older generations felt about technology.
Watch as this baby doesn‘t know quite what to make of a print magazine that won’t flip and zoom like an iPad version would:
The poster of this YouTube video writes:
“Technology codes our minds,” he writes. “Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives. It shows real life clip of a 1-year old, growing among touch screens and print. And how the latter becomes irrelevant. Medium is message. Humble tribute to Steve Jobs, by the most important person: a baby.”
[h/t Slashgear]
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virtualallstars
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 5:55pmI have been amazed at the answers and replies to this. How we outright deny the amazing tool technology provides us to understand our environment. Imagine a world where when you look at a planet in a book….you don’t just look upon Jupiter and wonder what the colors and rocks look like from the print, you can zoom in and see real pictures and rocks on the surface. That is the difference between a book and an iPad.
The excuse is…what if technology disappears? If that happens handwriting will be the least of our worries. Do you guys know how to grow and harvest rice, make bread, pump water from ……where is your nearest fresh water supply?
Our sense of security from non-technology functionality is a complete fallacy. You depend on it more than you can ever imagine!
What this video shows to me is that our future will not accept a print magazine as a method of exploration. They are going to demand interactivity with true facts to compare and contrast. Magazine and books will be a thing of collecting and appreciation. Just as you don’t use and encyclopedia anymore…..you Google it!
Report Post »Lampster65
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 11:37amIf the parents in the video are correct, it says more about themselves than their child or even Apple. Perhaps they need to spend more time reading to their child than handing her the iPad to play with. One will expand their mind. The other will occupy their time.
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 12:47pmThis is a human baby that poops in it‘s pants and if that wasn’t enough singularly…pees in them too. If you placed the baby on the edge of a cliff it would likely fall off. If you placed the child on the shoulder of a turnpike it would likely wander onto the turnpike. I really don’t think an IPad is going to alter or change those proclivities in that child in any way. Cute video? I suppose. Earth shattering in the general scheme of human development? Hardly. It does show one thing though…..that children imitate things almost exactly. Parents seem these days to forget that. So if as a parent you place more importance on getting your nails done than you have done getting yourself in a position to pay for your own food and rent…then you can certainly expect your children to grow up in just exactly the same way. Imitation is not always flattering. In this country….it is breaking up the very system our founders put in place to prevent such de-evolution. March on Wall Street miscreants…I hope your parents are proud….that is of course for those of you who even know both of them. Since the marchers are mainly Caucasian…..the “those with fathers in prison” statistic is not applicable.
Report Post »truckinwife
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 5:26pmLOL, first things are first babies don’t need Ipads. They need laps with mom or dad to read to them. It isn’t the book but the interaction they want, and BTW why keep a broken Ipad in the first darn place.
Report Post »dave88
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:41pmI have always heard that Apple products will rot your brain.
Report Post »grannyjojo
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 9:15amAhhh, but she is cute! My 7 year old granddaughter started out on computers by the time she was 6 months. I made sure she was computer savvy, but she knows the differences. She LOVES to read BOOKS. She has a whole library of books, along with her collection of DVD’s and she has her OWN computer, her own DVD player, and her own games. She is very inquisitive and sooo smart. She does work that computer like a pro though! Kids can do both ya know, computers AND books. Please don‘t think they can’t, you’ll just hinder them. Guess I’m just a little proud of her, huh? “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess”
Report Post »mernijo
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:44pmGood for her! My 13 yr old grandson has always been able to distinguish the difference between the computer and books and likes both; books the most. He is very athletic and uses computers like a pro and is always reading series books, takes books even on vacations!
Report Post »Leevamark2
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:41amI’m gonna guess this is a new parent. I guarantee you- if you sit that baby on your lap and read books to her- she’ll figure out, after watching you only a few times, that books work differently than the i-pad, and she’ll be fine with it. She’ll learn it from watching & then by doing. After all, that’s the same way she learned that touching the I-Pad screen causes movement on the screen. Already, she knew how to physically grab and turn pages in these magazines. She didn’t learn THAT from the I-Pad. Sheeeeeeeeez. Over-react much? LOL
Report Post »theaveng
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:40amLook at how he‘s fondling that woman’s breasts (in the magazine)
Report Post »Maybe he’s just hungry
;-)
angelite49
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:30pmMalarkey, I say! This baby is in the process of learning the differences between iPad and Magazine. My grandson (same age) tries to use the TV remote like a telephone. Rectangular, has buttons. Why not? Lots of kids pick up any ol‘ stick and pretend it’s sword. Others rock a doll and sing to it as if it could hear. Most babies put everything in their mouths because they don’t yet understand the difference between food and non-food, AND, it’s another way to sense things, like colorful toys, paper, dirt, etc.
It’s silly to suggest a child with one whole year of life experience has somehow been marred by technology, and won’t know what to do with a magazine. Do we expect all printed matter to disappear in the next 7 years? Puh-leeeeze!
Report Post »Caerus
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 4:19pmI agree with you, but it is certainly a cute video!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:02pmThat was really cute & sweet! Made me laugh. How far we have come in such a short time.
Report Post »ca lady
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:14pmMy daughter was playing “pet store” with her stuffed animals back in the 80′s and scanning them for the price.
Report Post »Jennifer_D
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:29amIt is amazing to see how far we have come in such a short time! I remember scanning our canned goods when I was little and checking people out at my grocery store. This little girl is growing up in a very interesting time. Yes; iPads can be awesome and a useful tool. However; I hope her parents don’t forget that technology is a double edged sword. What would happen if we were totally dependent upon technology and it failed us? We already see things like detachment because of inability to communicate person to person. The old fashioned letter in the mail has lost its treasured place and paper books are quickly being replaced with audiobooks for “convenience”.
This little girl should have a blast with her iPad AND magazines learning the value of both! She is a precious little sweetheart. :) I would suggest some more age-appropriate reading material though!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:26pmtragic that these kids are not being taught anything on PAPER…. the day will come and obama will have DELIBERATELY destroyed America’s energy sources so severely that we will have NO electricity to power ANYTHING ………like those tech equipment battery chargers. obama wants America to be back in windmills and shacks and goatcarts. his dreamland of a wateland 3RD WORLD gghettoed africanized America
Report Post »G.E.R
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:50pmYou do realize it’s a one year old baby
Report Post »chainj
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:17pmWhen my son was 1.5-2 years old (ish) and he was learning how to use my iPhone, he would try to get the computer screen and the TV to do the same thing. If he saw a picture, he would wipe his finger across the screen to try and scroll to the next one. He got a little frustrated when it didn’t work. He did learn to work that iPhone better than me eventually.
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:34pmWhat a stupid video. The parent here is, I think, making WAAAAAY too much of what they’re seeing. I will guarantee you that if given a magazine my 1 year old granddaughter, who has never so much as SEEN an iPad, would probably do exactly the same thing as this baby. Sounds to me like the parents here are total iCultists. Look! The baby is touching the magazine with her finger! Must mean she’s trying to use it like an iPad! Morons.
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:39pmlol exactly
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:07pmBalthazor- My my aren’t you crabby. Good at name calling too. I bet your Grandchild is really cute & brings you & your family joy, as does this child.
Report Post »angelite49
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:40pmMaybe it takes a grandparent to put things into perspective, huh? LOL
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:59pmThat ipad is powered by coal just like the new cars will be soon. That baby will be taught that global warming is destroying the earth. The child will work to outlaw coal power plants. Then when we outlaw coal and its back to the abacus.
Report Post »PA-FuBo
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 9:39pmNeo….I taught my six year old son how to use an Abicus properly for just that reason. Using a map vs GPS, and as I type he is reading aloud, in bed, from my 20 plus yr old Calvin & Hobbes collection.
He is I-pad savy, but we also have every game system console from Atari (pong),Nintendo64 to Wii. He loves them all….
Report Post »We also learn about the present, without forgeting about our founding fathers, and history……
Squ33
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:52pmAnd people wonder why it is important to learn how to do math when there is a calculator. In studying Engineering, and because I know the math behind it, I can still do basic calculations without a computer code :D
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:59pmApparently it’s the parent who need to learn something about technology. Whoever shot the video needs to realize that a video camera (unlike a still camera) can‘t be flipped on it’s side without the image being recorded sideways.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:32pmIf the Tech goes out… this generation will have to live in caves and eat each other! Oh… wait… that’s in the plot of the “Time Machine”!
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