21st Century Child
A child of the 21st century can be involved with information and communication technology very early in life. We may speak of 'natives' (those who grew up immersed in ICT) and 'immigrants' (those who have become initiated somewhat later in life), but whatever the age one begins to utilise computers, we should consider the need for a philosophy in our approach to this powerful technology.
As a teacher of Media Arts I have developed a philosophical approach to the use of computers mainly through aspects of visual literacy, tactile experience, and treating the computer as essentially a processor for quickening certain elements of the creative process.
A computer's 'central processing unit' (CPU), processes information in pulses of electrical energy so fast that our comprehension struggles to grasp the idea. Much as the wings of a hummingbird filmed in slow motion, what if that processing power was slowed down from several billion pulses per second to a more tangible speed. What if we could physically observe the electro-magnetic process of change taking place whenever we use a CPU.
We could imagine the experience perhaps from above... as if in a city building at night looking down at the headlights of cars as they stop and start for intersections in the gridlocked traffic.
Rather more inspiring than watching city traffic, we gain an experiential understanding of harnessing such processing power whenever we explore our "sense" of process.