The Great Outdoors VS. Technology

This article was found on Facebook this morning with the comment: "My children won't have them"

http://theunboundedspirit.com/why-steve-jobs-didnt-let-his-kids-use-ipads/

I couldn't resist - I had to re-post it and comment on it with the following:

I think we are doing our kids a great disservice if we keep them from technology.  Whether we like it or not, the world revolves around technology...it is our future.  Its about setting appropriate boundaries and providing the proper guidance.  Technology is not all about mindless staring at a screen - that is a common stereotype.  And like other stereotypes, it needs to be dismantled. Technology is chock full of opportunities for our kids to be creative.  Just because they are building and imagining with pixels instead of blocks does not make the process less artistic.  In fact, it is probably more innovative because certain physical restrictions to the creative process have been removed.  We need to teach our kids to love and value both the great outdoors and the great world of technology - there needs to be a balance between the two.

Dismantling the stereotype:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LhEZ_TJwuY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhc9Ywn0mXE

This dismantling of stereotypes is something we see in our articles for this week, as they discuss the creative side of New Media - see my blogs for additional dismantling:
http://shawneeedu106.blogspot.com/2014/11/intro-in-article-reading-images.html