The Incredible World of Technology

Today, I participated in an all-day workshop organized by Coastline CC. The objective of the meeting was to help design multimedia materials for EFL students in China. After the Chinese materials have been published, then they will publish materials for Spanish speakers in the US.Why was the meeting so interesting?

The people attending were TESOL faculty members, faculty members from Applied Linguistics programs, the USC people who are doing the work on gaming, people from MIT, and people from Berkely.To hear these people talk about gaming and education was incredible! One of them said that now teenagers use email for "formal" communication purposes. And they use email to send thank you notes to their friends' parents.

So the disconnect between what we, adults do and what teenagers do with technology is incredible!Hannah will experience this incredible and challenging world! Scary but true! Kuki

....And she is trying to walk

Hannah is trying to walk... She is holding me from one hand and she tries to take steps. She has given two or three steps with one of us holding her from one hand. And she is having a lot of fun! She clearly wants to be independent. She is feeding herself and now she is learning how to walk.... She seems so small and in need of protection and then she turns around and she is taking risks! But she is having a lot of fun... She is laughing and enjoying life! Cheers, Kuki

Hannah is feeding herself

How exciting! Hannah wants to feed herself and I have noticed that when she does, she eats more.

I have learned to place the food, cut in relatively big pieces (underline relatively) on her tray. And she starts picking up the food. Of course, I also want her to eat vegetables that I put in a spoon. She will eat them, but she eats a lot more when the food is on the tray. And she has a lot of fun!

Now, I have to convince myself that the area around her chair is going to be full of leftover food. Boy do I love the dustbuster! I used to have it in the garage. Now I have it in the kitchen all the time. It has become another kitchen utensile!