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Modern Technology for Beginners, Tuesday, 8/14
The gremlins providing the ominous soundtrack for today's class quieted and began to disperse after one good glare from the teacher.
"Today," Tyrion said, once the group of students seemed to be assembled and the gremlins were blissfully silent, "For our last class, I'm going to ask you to make a choice. There are plenty of ... for want of a better word, gadgets that one can buy these days. Most of them don't do anything a computer or a high-end phone won't do" -- and he took a moment to reflect on the fact a year before he hadn't know what a phone was -- "but sometimes they're either less expensive or more practical to carry around."
He gestured to an array of three small metal-and-glass tablets laid on a table, then held them up one by one. "This is a camera. It takes pictures and records moving film of anything you might point it at. The thing next to it is called an eReader; it loads computer files of books, and you can read almost anything you'd like on it. The third is called an MP3 player, and it holds songs. I bought this one used, and it has about 3,000 on it. Most of them sound like complete noise to me, but perhaps not to you."
He briefly showed how each device was turned on and off, and the fundamentals of their use. "The rest of the class is for you to play with them," he finished. "I'd also like to know which of them you'd pick if you could only have one, and why that is."
"And ignore our guests," he added, with another glare to the last gremlin lingering in the corner. "They aren't biting today, just humming."
"Today," Tyrion said, once the group of students seemed to be assembled and the gremlins were blissfully silent, "For our last class, I'm going to ask you to make a choice. There are plenty of ... for want of a better word, gadgets that one can buy these days. Most of them don't do anything a computer or a high-end phone won't do" -- and he took a moment to reflect on the fact a year before he hadn't know what a phone was -- "but sometimes they're either less expensive or more practical to carry around."
He gestured to an array of three small metal-and-glass tablets laid on a table, then held them up one by one. "This is a camera. It takes pictures and records moving film of anything you might point it at. The thing next to it is called an eReader; it loads computer files of books, and you can read almost anything you'd like on it. The third is called an MP3 player, and it holds songs. I bought this one used, and it has about 3,000 on it. Most of them sound like complete noise to me, but perhaps not to you."
He briefly showed how each device was turned on and off, and the fundamentals of their use. "The rest of the class is for you to play with them," he finished. "I'd also like to know which of them you'd pick if you could only have one, and why that is."
"And ignore our guests," he added, with another glare to the last gremlin lingering in the corner. "They aren't biting today, just humming."
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