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Kid thinks magazine is a malfunctioning iPad – video


The kid was probably thinking, “Why can’t I swipe it?" In a tribute to the late Apple founder Steve Jobs uploaded earlier this month, a Youtube video shows a one-year-old child trying to manipulate a magazine in vain, in the same way that the little girl would swipe or click an iPad. “For my one-year-old daughter, a magazine is an iPad that does not work. It will remain so for her whole life," said Youtube subscriber UserExperiencesWorks, who uploaded the video. “Technology codes our minds," the user added. “Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives." The video, which was uploaded on the same day that Jobs died, has 1,977,338 views as of posting time. [Click here for story on Jobs’ death.] ‘Digital natives’ Children like the girl in the Youtube video belong to the generation of “digital natives," a term coined by learning specialist Marc Prensky in 2001. The term refers to “a class of youngsters who – by virtue of being born and raised in an environment with easy access to technology – can easily adapt to new technological advancements, and whose learning and thinking patterns may have been shaped by such," wrote GMA News Online’s Patricia Calzo Vega in February. Prensky, who advocates educational reform, sees the emergence of digital natives as a challenge for educators to modify their teaching methods, Calzo Vega said. Other experts, however, have noted a downside to these educational trends, said a special report on GMA News TV’s “State of the Nation" newscast. The culture of instant gratification that the Internet brings, for example, has led students to undermine some learning-related values, observed educator and psychology graduate Rochelle Prado. “Though it is very convenient, you lose that core value of learning where you have to work. That is essential in learning – knowing how to gather information, for example, or get your answers through patience, through persistence, through work," Prado said. - KBK, GMA News

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