On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to get hold of Omar Khayyam Moore's Edison Talking > Typewriter program and rewrite it in a modern programming language. It > ran on an IBM 360 and taught three-year-olds to read and write on a > Selectric terminal with very little human intervention required. > My PyGTK port of Ben Sittler's Yay Bee See! could be adapted to mimic the ETT. - After the student has pressed some keys and gets used to the feedback of seeing the letter and pictures, show a random picture and "disable" the keyboard except for the corresponding key, just like ETT. - Add a sound effect for each picture / letter combo, just like the ETT. This is something Ben and I discussed which would not be hard to do. It's mostly a matter of collecting the media. - You could add a constructivist twist by letting the student paste in a new picture and/or sound for each letter, perhaps from Record (see Walter's Typing Turtle suggestion). The collection would be saved to the Journal. Feel like dusting off your Python skills? git://dev.laptop.org/users/wadeb/yay-bee-see -Wade
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