This talk about pre-schoolers, and their comfort level with technology, really hits home for me. My 4 year old daughter is constantly asking to visit Disney, Nickelodeon and PBS websites. She is navigating the computer with an ever-increasing level of self-assurance and ease. I look at her and think to myself, "Wow, when I was that age turning my Speak and Spell on was quite a feat!" Though, I suppose that this is true of every generation as the availability of and accessibility to technology is always increasing.
I think it's also important to realize though that it's not ALWAYS just the younger generations that embrace technological advance. When my grandmother turned 80 she bought her first computer. Within months she transformed from an "internet know-nothing" to a whiz with the web.
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I also know of an 80 year-old woman who is using the Internet (Web 1.0). Not social networking yet.
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