A parameter-adjusting posting on the Wikinomics blog today is titled Thanks for the doll but I want your mobile phone. It is not the parents who need to read what Wikinomics reports: the parents are getting it from their own toddlers. Everyone who expects to have a role in future education needs to know what this post tells us about the children who are now starting school and even those too young for pre-school. Here is a sample, though I recommend you read it all by clicking the title above:
A mother of one year old twins who purchased toy cell phones had to return them a few days later. “They know what a real cellphone is, and they don’t want a fake one,” she says. Another exasperated mother who refused her 6 year old’s wish to own a real laptop conceded that she might have to give in next year. A parent of a two year old says “We have a toy laptop for him, and he knows it’s a fake.” He prefers to play on the real one. . . .
At this pace of adoption today’s kids will upstage the Net Generation as the true tech experts. . . .
