Re: How Computers Really Work: A Children's Guide

2006-05-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
My 2 euros worth, from Paris, I also have been amazed at the ease with which my kids (and my grand-kids !) hook up to the use of computers. It makes some grown-ups look quite silly. But I have yet to meet a young person who can work out a square root without using a calculator (something I

Re: How Computers Really Work: A Children's Guide

2006-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
://www.sosresearch.org/caale/caalesimulators.html How Computers Really Work: A Children's Guide, [authors: Shirley Crossley, Hugh Osborne, and William Yurcik, published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer Architecture Education (WCAE), Anchorage AK USA, May 2002.] This just seems SO DOABLE in Rev

Re: How Computers Really Work: A Children's Guide

2006-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
Really Work: A Children's Guide, [authors: Shirley Crossley, Hugh Osborne, and William Yurcik, published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer Architecture Education (WCAE), Anchorage AK USA, May 2002.] This just seems SO DOABLE in Rev... Any thoughts, fellow educators? Judy