I don't know where to post this. I have spent the last little while reading articles and papers on the web on child development. I am interested in developing activities for early childhood learning. If the OLPC XO-1s are aimed at 6 to 12 year olds then I am interested in the 6-7-8 year end of the continuum. I started my search on the web because I was uncertain what children in this age group are able to grasp. I am also uncertain about the developmental readiness of the 9-12 age group as well. In fact maybe the 6-8 age is too big of a span. Maybe I should focus on 6 and 7 year olds. I just don't know at this point what the jump in child development is between 6 and 8.
In any event it must be true that if we are successful there will be a jump in child development between 6 year olds and 8 year olds. So I am thinking that it would be helpful to me if there was a listserve set up for age differentiated activity development. This listserve would focus not on the technicalities of code development but instead on age appropriate activity design. It could also facilitate activity collaboration. I can also see the benefit of activities that are set up to work together. Specifically a drawing program that is developed to produce images that are for the use of other activities. Or a word processing activity that is developed to produce text for use by other activities. The same with audio, video and photo clips. Then a scrapbook activity could pull easily from these other activities, or a story creator, or a trip reporter or a history recorder. So rather then create monolithic highly structured activities we (also) develop a set of module (activities) that can be glued together on the fly by the student. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
