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Mobilities Throughout The Ages
By: Rebecca Jane McKee
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Mobilities were originally designed to cater to an older demographic
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Over time, the market has expanded to incorporate the entire family, creating
applications to meet the needs of every age
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Toddlers &
Mobilities!
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Mobilities are now being designed with the
youngest of the
household in mind by creating
specialized apps to help
with their developmental progress Image by: emeth
–Flickr, Creative Commons
“Learning to count and recognizing colours, shapes, sounds and patterns are all things that can be done”-Rob Ferguson, author of iPhone Apps a Hit With Preschoolers
Image by: oxtopus–Flickr, Creative CommonsSource: Iphone Apps a Hit With Preschoolers, Toronto Star
With these new applications “new pipelines have opened up for play and learning...It’s a very exciting time,” says Warren Buckleitner of Children’s Technology Review
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Source: Iphone Apps a Hit With Preschoolers, Toronto Star
With the development
of toddler applications
and the increasing number of
mobilities sold to parents,
will this extinguish
toys such as Leapster from
the marketplace?
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Kids &
Mobilities!!
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The children of today have
been brought up in a time of rapid
technological change
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"Kids today are digital
natives. Our research
shows that they use their
mobile phones to talk, text,
take pictures, play games and check Facebook“
-Rose Read of MobileMuster
Image by: MelCarminati–Flickr, Creative Commons Source: Schools Should Teach Kids Phone Safety, 9news
A study conducted by Sybase Inc discovered that children today are more
likely to own a mobile phone than a book!
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Source: The Growth of Mobile: Stats and figures that will shock you, Sybase Inc
It is great that
children are able to use the latest
technology but it is
important that parents
and teachers instruct
them about the
potential risks
associated with having
these exciting gadgets
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Teenagers &
Mobilities!
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With the emergence of social networking, parents have been worried about their teenagers social skills with the dramatic
shift away from personal face to face conversations to
predominantly online conversations
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Now with the ever growing popularity of
data communication,
people are beginning to
prefer texting as oppose to
callingImage by: Cavan Images–Flickr, Creative Commons
“In December of 2009, the 400 million
mobile broadband subscribers
accounted for a greater amount of traffic than
the world's remaining 4.6 billion mobile
phone customers”-from Data
Bigger Than Voice On Mobile
Networks
Image by: stevec–Flickr, Creative CommonsSource: Data bigger than voice on mobile networks, The Telegraph
Does this mean that teenagers are
shifting away from voice
communication too?
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Adults & Mobilities!
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Mobilities have
unbelievable capabilities for the adult
user.
With an app for just about
everything, it makes life a little bit easier!
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There are some
drawbacks with these incredible mobilities though...
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Recent studies have
discovered that iPhones
secretly keep track of
wherever you go and
document the locations it into
its system
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“...meaning that anyone who
stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner's movements
using a simple program”-
Charles Arthur of “iPhone
Keeps Record of Everywhere You
Go”Image by: Panduka Senaka–Flickr, Creative CommonsSource: Iphone keeps record of everywhere you go, guardian.co.uk
Not only do children have to be careful,
so too do adult mobility users!
Image by: stevec–Flickr, Creative Commons
Despite a few negative aspects, the development of mobilities has been
and continues to be extremely beneficial for the entire family.
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With the astonishing capabilities of mobilities
today, it is hard to fathom what they will be able to
do in the future!
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