Training children to make their own websites, blogs and mobile apps was a satisfying experience as they not only picked it up very fast, they had boundless curiosity and we ended up learning many things from them as well!

1. DIGITAL DUNIYA
MindScripts Summer Camp
INTRODUCTION TO THE DIGITAL WORLD
Pankaj Agrawal
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2. In Prehistoric Times, people
hunted for a living

3. Their tools were stones
and spears

4. As they moved to
agriculture, the
most important
assets became
land and cattle!

5. The Industrial Revolution
changed the complete World
Economy - how?

6. Human Beings are almost 2000,000 years old on
this planet but civilization as we know it started
almost 8 - 10,000 years ago!

7. Computers, Mobiles, IT and a lot of other
things we see around us today, are a very
recent development for human beings!
Hunting, Gathering Agriculture
Industrial
Revolution
First
Computers
IT Revolution
80,000 years ago 9,000 years ago
500
years
ago

8. In different
times, you
needed different
things, to
succeed! What
were they?

9. Hunting,
Gathering
Agriculture Industrial
Revolution
IT
Revolution
Cattle
Physical Strength
Hunting ability
Money
Capital
Brain, Skills
Ideas

10. What are the
tools we need
today?

11. Therefore, all
children should learn
computers and
understand the latest
technologies, even if
you will ultimately
become a doctor,
lawyer, teacher or
scientist ……

12. Star Trek Gadgets That Now Exist
Lieutenant Commander Geordi Lafarge used
a tablet computer (what they called Personal
Access Data Devices, or PADDs) to punch in
coordinates for the next star system. Other
Starfleet personnel used them to watch video
and listen to music—just the things we use
tablets for today.Tablet Computers

13. In the Star Trek universe, you can talk to a
computer in casual conversation. These days,
we've got Apple's Siri and Google Now, and
while they aren't fully developed systems yet,
they are baby steps toward a service like Star
Trek's computer, which has a complex
understanding of context.
Talking to Computers
The Communicator
The Communicator was a fictional device
used for voice communication in the fictional
universe of Star Trek. It seemed wild and
impossible then but today it is an integral part
of our lives, even for the most backward and
uneducated person - no more a high tech
gadget!

14. Some Things that seem impossible or at least
difficult to imagine today…
3D Printing Self Driven Cars Drones

15. Interconnected, Intelligent
devices, which can function
based on their own
intelligence. It will include
not just computers and robots
but simple everyday things
like televisions, washing
machines and toasters also.

16. SOFTWARE
WEBSITES
BLOGS
Apps
PROGRAMMERS
Marketers
DigitalExperts

17. The basic foundation of
any digital media is a
Website - so we’ll make
our very own Website.
So,whatisa
Website??

18. Pankaj Agrawal @ MindScripts
End of First Session
So, what have we learnt today?
✤ How human beings evolved
✤ What were the tools required then, and now?
✤ What are the requirements for us to be successful today?
✤ What seemed impossible then is very much a reality today
✤ What seems impossible today, will surely be a reality tomorrow.
So go ahead and dream impossible things!
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland