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(TNS) technology became a necessity for Linda Brandon when she owned Linda's Music in Decatur. "In the mid to late 1990s we were like, 'Okay, we have to do this, we have to get a computer' and we built one," said Brandon, who closed her store in 2020 and retired. "You couldn't just go to Best Buy and buy one like you do today." She recalls how she and Hugh Reeves were "kind of lost". But through trial and error, they found out. Today, educators often refer to students as “digital natives” because they have never known a world without computers, cell phones and iPads. Even a young child seems to know instinctively how to use them. But people who grew up with rotary phones, not cable TV, and before computers were in every home and office, had to learn to use them, and some still feel uncomfortable. In a world where even ordering from a fast food restaurant requires th

After more than a year of bans with restricted access to nature, Magdalena Begh was delighted when her six-year-old daughter came home from the forest school and told her that she had found three rat skeletons. One of them, Alia told her, was "pretty fresh". "These little observations are very important to your learning - it's amazing," says Begh. Since Alia and her nine-year-old sister Hana went to the after-school club Urban Outdoors Adventures in Nature in North London in June, they have been using clay, learning about insects and making campfires, jam and bows and arrows. You are part of a wave of children across the UK who have been attending forest schools since the pandemic began, many since September. Of the more than 200 forest schools surveyed by the Forest School Association (FSA), around two-thirds said that demand for their services had increased since March 2020. Reasons cited were increased awareness of the benefits of being outdoors, particu