Posts Tagged ‘tldr’
Sep 22 2016
Teach Your Kids What a Phone Is
Via Sue Walsh on Medium:
A friend recently told me that he asked his son to answer the phone. He and his wife have a backup landline, as cell reception can be spotty in their apartment. As the phone rang, the son ran around looking for it, not knowing where it was, even though the landline was in plain view. He thought “phone” was his Mom’s orange-cased iPhone. Without knowing that the ringing was coming from that unidentifiable thing on the wall, the call was missed.
The rest of the article is good too. The part I quoted is specifically about kids not knowing what a land-line is. They should. Teach them. ‘Kay?
Source: Digitization and The Loss of Iconography – Posted by SYPartners – Medium
