Sunday, April 5, 2009

Children & Technology

Hey everyone!
  So I know someone already talked about it in one of their blogs last week but I'm going to bring up the topic again. I was in my CHF 203 class where you get to play with pre-school children and observe them and I was talking to one of the little girls. We were talking about pets and she told me she had a hedge hog so we talked about what they eat and where they live and things like that. When we were talking about how the hedge hog doesn't shed but does something similar called quilling the little girl mentioned to me that she saw a video of it on YouTube. This got me thinking... Did this girls mother or father look up on YouTube quilling? Did the little girl go on YouTube and type in hedge hog or quilling? What else would she find if she typed in one of those words?  So i did some investigating on YouTube and typed in both of the words "quilling" and "hedge hog"...
   When I typed in "hedge hog" I found many useless videos about random things like sonic the hedge hog and peoples hedge hogs doing random things. When I typed in quilling I found only things about quilling which happens to be a craft that people do. None of these videos seemed educational. It's interesting to see what things will come up when you type in words like that. I had no idea that quilling was a craft I just thought it had to do with hedge hogs shedding. 
   Anyways this is just something for people to think about when they get on YouTube next time. 

1 comment:

  1. I wonder if maybe they were searching for quilling (paper filigree)? I research a lot about paper filigree and find tons of info on hedgehogs or Native American Quilling (which uses porcupine quills).

    The interesting thing about the internet is you never know which road you're going to go down and you can always learn something interesting if you're open to the experience.

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