Location: Federal Way Public Library
Time 5-7
Date: 2/18/2015
We were all in one room today,
kids and adults. The planned theme was “Using Technology with Kids” as a family
workshop, but the women had specific things they wanted to work on.
There were four boys around 6-8
years old present, which was a bit of a pickle as we had only three iPad minis.
We tried to encourage them to share, to play games together, such as the word
guessing game on the Osmo. The played the word game for a little bit, but then
one broke off to play the chef game with the Tiggly, then another wanted to
play that game and soon everyone wanted to play that game on their own tablet. It was not as easy to make that a
work together game, and so one boy was left out, upset. Although Brad tried for
a while, for some reason he was unable to get the other tablets to download
games. So I let the other boy use my Surface tablet, though the only game I
have is Jetpack Joyride. That started a commotion over everyone now wanting to
play that game. It’s never fair with children, is it? I could probably say the
same with adults though, we want what they have, not what we have.
Anyway, that didn’t last long as it was then storytime. I
sat and listened, amazed with the librarian’s ability to keep the attention of
the boys, who were not wanting to stay still. I talked to the storytime librarian for a bit afterwards about children’s programs, the ones
she runs and the research she’s done with education. Meanwhile, Brad was
playing with the boys in the children’s section, running around on all fours,
which was funny to see.
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