Explaining tech to a 5 year old

Explaining tech to a 5 year old

A basic explanation of technology

Hello guys,

Remember when grandma tells us stories about sharks, tortoises and the old days of life, can you imagine they didn't have TVs back then, they didn't watch baby Sharks or SpongeBob squared pants and all the amazing cartoons we watch now. That's because there were no TVs back then.

Hmmm, imagine life without TV.

So, can you guess what happened that we suddenly have TVs today?

Life is changing. New ideas are coming up every day. We have some really smart people working day and night to bring up cool devices we now use. We call them scientists and engineers.

When these changes happen and new devices are created, it's called technology. We can call it tech for short.

In simple words, tech means providing or using tools that make life easier and gives you comfort.

Someone designed and built a car to make us avoid walking long distances.Your computers, iPads, phones and most of our devices were created so we can talk to people far away, watch movies or play games.

Now, let's talk about some areas of computer technology

There are special people called designers. Just like you use crayons to draw pictures on paper, that's how tech designers create lovely designs on a computer and give that image to an engineer so it would be built.

Next, we have programmers. The word "programmer" seems like a really difficult term, but they are interesting and smart people. They write some instructions that make your computer or iPad work! So we can say programming is the process of telling a computer what to do with computer language we may not understand now. These programmers take their time to learn and try out these computer languages (You could learn it too!😉)

There are also special people who try to make sure the cool things built by the designers and programmers get to us at home. They are called marketers. They make you see how good a product is and get your parents to buy them for you.

There are other interesting areas in tech we could go on about, but just understand that technology is a means to help people solve problems. It's not actually as difficult as it sounds😊.