Amazon echo dot
Perhaps this should be in ATC. And to those of you, that already have one, this is old news. But for us. this thing is really great, kind of like the old star treks. Money well spent in my opinion....
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dewey02 wrote:qtla9111 wrote:
If you watched the Jetsons, Star Trek and the Twilight Zone weren't you the ones who said, "wow, the 21st century will really be something". Here we are and people who are over sixty are turning down the opportunity to free themselves from trivial chores so that they can do things that are truly important.
As a teacher, one of the common complaints I have from students is about their grandparents. They won't let us use our cellphones, tablets, X Box, etc when we go to visit. Whether we like it or not, technology is here to stay and it's really in its infancy.
A family member in the military is trained to intercept and listen to cell phone conversations. In fact, a few years ago, there was a number you could dial and listen to the airwaves and mixed cellphone conversations.
As someone else stated, let them listen, what will they hear? We're all human beings and as unique as we would like to think we are, we're not. Unique in some ways but our daily habits are all pretty much the same. We all eat, sleep, have relations, and go to the bathroom pretty much like any other species.
In most cases, like the teachers I train, they are afraid of technology and that is why it isn't used. Lack of knowledge and information. Embrace it, use it, and it may just be your best friend one day.
What are those truly important things that you can spend your time doing?
As for the grandparent's comment about the kids with their cellphones:
It may be modern technology, but it is just rude behavior to be sitting in a room or at the dinner table with someone that you don't visit too often, and you have live people right there in front of you and you spend your time gazing at your phone and checking to see what the Kardashians are up to, or carrying on a conversation with your facebook "friends." Perhaps as a teacher, you should also be educating your students about respect, social grace, how to interact with actual people who are standing in front of you. It appears your students don't seem to understand that.
I don't think those grandparents are scoffing at the technology, they are commenting on the total lack of respect and social graces that their grandchildren are demonstrating.
I agree with most of this.
And,,, since we are on a RV site. It sucks to take some kid to the park and instead of fishing / swimming / biking etc they spend all the time looking at their phone. Sometimes you have to tell them to stop.
I don't mind modern technology but, there is a time and place for everything and sometimes people need to get away from the technology and back to nature.
A child that gets experience in lots of different things will grow up to be a better person.
