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

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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!

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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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