I'm at the National Media Museum in Bradford, making some notes on a photographic exhibition, harsh documentary landscape with military subjects. A small crowd of children gather round to see the iPad.
One little boy asks to try it out and I let him write his name. 'Abdil', he types it out carefully, one letter at a time. Other children write their names. I'm like the Pied Piper, I have to stop again and more children do the same, 'Esa, Salina, John, Musa, Laiba, Vaneesa, Leah', they type out their names in the middle of the notes I'm making on the photographs of Donovan Wylie.
The power of the iPad to engage and inspire, the potential to turn children into writers.
I was at the Media Museum Bradford, where a new exhibition entitled, Life on Line, opens March 2012. This exhibition explores the way the Internet has changed our lives as individuals and as a society.
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/
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