We may get all excited about the new phone or laptop but do we appreciate it as much as others used too. Our technologies today are incredible and we would not know what to do without them. Although, we all loved the traditional Snake.
The speed and distance that information can travel at today is intense. We get messages instantly, and can get them from a global distance. We started with electronic mail, chat rooms (MSN) and now we have social networking and Skype. Not only do we have fast messaging but have you seen how fast we can get news feeds. Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites available, if you follow BBC, or the Guardian and of course, our favourite celebrities (as long as it's not stalking) the news is instantly tweeted.
Our digital era got lucky.
Our digital era got lucky.
So, we have instant messaging, global communications, books in computers, what else?
Ever had a story told through platforms of episodes with a click of button?
The younger generations of students have. Inanimate Alice is a online media designed for pre-teen students for interest, academic learning and understanding. Watching the episodes it may not have interest to me, I would much rather read a book but the interaction for children, and young students would make school, and reading much more interesting and fun rather than just going to the library and picking up a book with pages of words, kids do not really care about. Where are the pictures?
Mediated technologies are becoming more and more popular, although often are for entertainment, some form a purpose of learning.
