Meryl Alper
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323 appearances
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first heard Jan 2024
last heard Jan 2024
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But of course, TV wasn't just the only at that point now, this is in 2010.
The iPad had come out.
And I knew that that was going to absolutely change all of the different ways that kids were consuming, creating, sharing content, and doing.
so at even younger ages.
But what I didn't realize until I started doing more research was it wasn't just about age, but also about developmental stage and ability, because you now have the capacity where you didn't have to, if you were going to be a kid using a computer, mind you, smartphones had existed at that time, but now you don't need a keyboard.
You don't need a mouse.
All of the sort of fine motor skills, all of
The sort of planning that you would have needed to be able to make choices or to affect a computer, those have now been drastically lowered.
But then I realized also at that point, here I have all this background really in thinking about diverse learners and different kinds of backgrounds.
But I had had minimal training, I would say, I guess, in thinking about developmental differences.
Um, while I was working at Nickelodeon, I had
In sort of off hours and weekends, gotten a certificate in early childhood education from UCLA.
But even then, I think that there was a sort of separation out of sort of special or different learners.
It was one day maybe that we spent in a the course of a curriculum.
At that point for me, maybe I wasn't even looking for those classes at that time.
But I I felt like I didn't have that background.
So when I started spending more time taking classes.
Especially at USC US is where I went to get my PhD has an amazing occupational therapy department.
And I started to just take any classes that had technology in the title or that were going to expose me to that.
And I came to realize there was this whole wide world of technology that, in one sense, was separate from typically developing kids.
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