ENC 1101-B3 & B4: Writing for Discovery
Digital
Written by rah03c on November 5, 2003 - 21:37
I can relate well to Seely Brown’s article, Growing Up Digital. One of the biggest ways I can remember the changes in technology is not just in computers, but in video game systems, the way you listen to music and the way you watch. I remember when I was younger my grandfather had Atari and I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Then the day came when the regular Nintendo came out. I played every day after school for about six months. When Nintendo first came out every one was amazed by the graphics and how the characters looked. I used to play my dad all the time in the racing games and it took him forever to get even remotely good at the game. Now that the new systems have come out I try to play with him and it took him about a month to learn how to play Madden.
That’s just one of the thins Seely was talking about how the older generation needs to sit down and reed the manual, were as me and my friends wont even tink twice about the dumb manual we’ll just pop the game in and figure it out as we go.
“My generation tends not to want to try things unless or until we already know how to use them. If we don't know how to use some appliance or software, our instinct is to reach for a manual or take a course or call up an expert. Believe me, hand a manual or suggest a course to 15 year olds and they think you are a dinosaur. They want to turn the thing on, get in there, muck around, and see what works. Today's kids get on the Web and link, lurk, and watch how other people are doing things, then try it themselves. This tendency toward "action" brings us back into the same loop in which navigation, discovery, and judgment all come into play in situ.”
It’s funny to see how the two generation learn differently.
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Playstation!
Posted by Alexandra30001 on November 6, 2003 - 17:28.
"One of the biggest ways I can remember the changes in technology is not just in computers, but in video game systems." You know, I never saw it this way before, but you are 100 percent correct. When I was a little kid I thought Nintendo was the best thing out there, and look at what we have now! Playstation and x-box and game systems that bring humans to life. Things appear to look so much more realistic than ever before. Thats just one small example of how far our technology has taken us. Another small example are books. Not too long ago, small children had to learn how to read the old fashion way. But now children have access to books that actually talk to them and teach them reading skills.
You brought out something tha
Posted by jeb03h on November 6, 2003 - 15:43.
You brought out something that the other posts I have read didn't. When you sit down to play anything technologically advanced older generations have a tendency to reach for the manual to figure it out. Our generation has been brought at home and school so much, that you can figure out most anything once you pop it in. Seely made graett points about perspective in his article so you seemed to really have grasped them.