A friend of mine just sent me a link to this YouTube video and it got me thinking about watching my own kid “play” with my iPhone and Touch.

When my 5 year old started playing with my Touch I didn’t show him anything. He may have watched or seen his brother play with it, but there was no formal instruction, not training, just play.

This is the type of thing that always makes my think about how we talk about and plan for professional development with technology.

For kids their is no training… they just experiment and play. There is no fear, no worry… just fun.

This is what we need faculty to do with technology. Get over the fear factor and just play. It is one of the reason I deliberately say that I play with technology in my job, not to belittle what I do, but to let people know that this can be fun… that it can be play.

What we can learn from kids is amazing.