How about writing this up for OLPC News? On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Sameer Verma<sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > My daughter, who is 3 years and 7 months old has largely stayed away > from the XO (or for that matter computers in general) other than > mimicking me by turning on the XO and giving our guests/visitors an > unexpected short speech on "let me show you this computer. This is the > one laptop per child". She still likes her crayons and Lego blocks. > > She's on her summer break at home these days, which has forced me to > get creative and keep her engaged. I introduced her to implode > (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Implode) today. I showed her how to move > the "arrow" (she insists that I call it an arrow and not a mouse > because calling it a mouse is just silly) start a new implode game and > select three or more blocks of the same color. The goal is to get that > smiley face at the end of the game. One demo, plus some hints, and in > under three minutes, my daughter has become an implode player. > I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E !!! She even taught her mother how to play the > game later this evening. > > For all the arm chair naysayers out there, get with the program! > Children are amazing!!! > > cheers, > Sameer > -- > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Associate Professor of Information Systems > San Francisco State University > San Francisco CA 94132 USA > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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