agustina prigoshin

I’m taking care of my friends’ three kids for the week while she’s on vacation. They’re aged 10, 13 and 15.

I was helping the 10 year old with her vocabulary homework this afternoon and I noticed her textbooks’ page resembled a computer screen:

There was no reference to computers on the page, yet there was a scroll bar on the right, or rather, the left (forgive the backwards image, my computer likes to flip things when I take a picture with it).

Could it be that we, or in this case, kids, are so accustomed to computers that the best way to keep them engaged would be by making our learning tools look as if we were on a computer?

I’ll admit that I’ve had plenty of moments where I was scanning an article or book (hard copy, not on a computer) and really wished I can just hit control F to find the word or phrase I was looking for.

Computers really do make life easier, but why make a textbook page look like one?