I'm just hoping my children will get enough of a foundation to remember what it was like before technology, how good that feels. Because I remember.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.
I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early.
We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
In the mid-1990s, when I stopped having to run from the shows to the film developing lab and first saw digital images, I blessed technology and was convinced that my working life was changing for the better.
I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.
It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
What I like to say is that we're trying to develop a new generation of technologies that are worthy of the next generation of kids.