At 4, he would be building his idea of the world through sensations
(textures, smells, sounds), speech ("what do you call this?"), and
explore spaces through large body movements like twists, turns etc.
There is still lot of time before he can sit still before a computer to
use logic tools.
I find research by Jean Piaget, Lev Zygotsky, Maria Montessori, Jerome
Bruner to be very relevant at this age group. Patricia Kuhl for an
earlier stage but still very interesting. Your local chapter of American
Montessori Association will likely have plenty of resources and programs
for parents and friends. Research experiments like (conservation of
quantity, theory of mind) are really fun to do in a social setup. See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLEWVu815o
E.g. conservation of quantity - if you keep two rows of beads of equal
quantity but different spacing and ask the child which one has more
beads, they tend to pick the longer one. Or, if you pour equal quantity
of juice into two glasses of different height, they tend to pick the
taller column as having more. Watching them evolve their idea of the
world is really tons of fun.
HTH .. Subbu
On Saturday 02 April 2016 07:19 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
As Patrick wrote, what are your goals is a good question. There is
ScratchJr, that is meant for preschoolers, but I have to say that I am
mostly skeptical about it if your goal is any more than just having
fun with a child.
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Casey Ransberger
<casey.obrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry if this is a little off topic.
I have a dear friend with a 4-year old. He's a clever little beggar. I'd
like to put him onto Scratch, but I worry that procedural epistemology might
be a lot to think about at 4.
I don't really know anything about how kid's brains develop. I guessed that
a few people here would know a lot about that sort of thing. Bonus points
(as always) if you can point me at some research.
Anyway is 4 too soon?
--Casey Ransberger
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