On Dec 26, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote: > If these kids are given access to a hacker friendly system they will > learn how to make it do what they want. Pauric is entirely right, > children learn best by exploring and being "thrown into the deep end." > I'm sure a lot of us here have stories from our childhood about our > first computers and how we learned how to use them without > documentation or helpful interfaces.
This argument doesn't work, logically. To summarize: let's give kids sub-standard equipment. They're smart. They'll figure it out. Now remove kids and put users in there. Or adults. Why would we tolerate a lesser product for kids, simply because they can figure it out? Adults can figure out Windows 3.1, but I wouldn't want to inflict it on them. The question for me becomes, what is the ultimate goal of giving the kids laptops? My guess is that it gives them access to information that they otherwise wouldn't have. Does the current device and UI support that goal sufficiently, without forcing users to modify it to achieve that goal? I don't know the answer. Dan ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
