I have an example of my sister with 4 years that knows only to write his name (do not know to read yet) but i do create an acount on a debian system where user and pass is his name and she like to use xletters, abyword, memory and others games
So she enter on the computer alone and play a lot learning about new letters and turn the computer off at the end like any experienced user. Just knowing to write his name. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quarta-feira, 22 de outubro de 2003 0:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Philosophy (was Re: Replacement for Abiword: LyX? Openoffice?) On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:37:39PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Since they can't read yet (well, he's learning), computer-as-tool > is not feasible, yet. Computer-as-tool is perfectly feasible in an assisted fashion. Jessica (5, just learning to read) often wants me to explore things that we look up together. She enjoys the pictures, hearing me read aloud, and multimedia clips. > When it is, I still hope that books are used as the primary > tool. Call me weird, but I found it so interesting reading > sections of the encyclopedia and dictionary, while looking for > the articles that were my real target. You know what? I find that interesting too. And I hope that my children enjoy the same things. They'll have ample opportunity to, given that there are at any given time between 50 and 100 books, CDs and videos out from the library between the seven of us, and that we make it our regular habit to go out to the library once a week. > And it's just not practical to "curl up with a good computer". It's getting pretty darned close. > Boy, I wish we home schooled. I remember when we didn't. There were plenty of days where we *didn't* have the luxury of giving the kids computer turns. I guess even now there are still those days. Life just fills up with so many other things. Ben -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
