Do Kids Know What a " PC " or Laptop Is Today?
By BusyBoss
@Luap1050 (876)
December 11, 2017 6:34pm CST
I was speaking to a colleague at work the other day and he said he used the word " computer " to a younger child and he replied " what's that ? " 
I wonder at what age or where the split is where it's all tablets and phones and where a child still uses a Desktop or Phone as their main " screen"
I can just picture a child at a public school aghast to have to use a desktop computer these days in the library or classroom!
What do you think , do you know kids who don't really know what a computer is but are proficient on their tablets and smart phones ?
I wonder at what age or where the split is where it's all tablets and phones and where a child still uses a Desktop or Phone as their main " screen"
I can just picture a child at a public school aghast to have to use a desktop computer these days in the library or classroom!
What do you think , do you know kids who don't really know what a computer is but are proficient on their tablets and smart phones ?13 people like this
16 responses
@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
12 Dec 17
All the kids I know talk about a computer, an Internet site, or their cell-phone, constantly. They act like they were born with one in their hand:( One time my 16 year old grandson asked me, 'Grandma what's a typewriter?'
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
12 Dec 17
@Luap1050 Aubrey is six, she doesn't remember one day, without a computer in every room.
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@marguicha (223077)
• Chile
12 Dec 17
I don´t know. Things are changing so fast that even they don´t know.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
15 Dec 17
they take to tablets and smartphones like duck to water. i'm used to a desktop.
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
12 Dec 17
Let's give them an old IBM Selectric typewriter and see what happens!! 
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@rina110383 (24492)
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12 Dec 17
My nephew and niece are more familiar with their phones than the computer.
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@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
13 Dec 17
Well I was playing with my two nieces last night ages 7 and 9 and when I took out my laptop, they knew what it was.My son has his own desktop computer. Kids in my country has computer classes in school. It's part of the curriculum.
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@XianLovesMe (171)
• Philippines
13 Dec 17
definitely not! all my 6yo knows is tablet and touchscreen phone. I saw him sometimes secretly touching the monitor on my pc if it is not truly touchscreen. hahaha
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when it comes to technology. 
@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
15 Dec 17
I believe they do not know about desktops because they have laptops. Kids are smarter than when I was growing up.
