On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote: > >> Okay. Kenette 2.0 is approx. 3.5 years in age. She's currently getting >> into games on her "laptop," a Fisher Price doohickey that even has a >> "mouse." Anyway, suggestions on games that might run on a somewhat more >> open architecture like, say... Linux? >> >> > A web browser with flash. My son started at 3 and is now 6. He goes to > nickjr, webkins, club penguin, disney. He clicks on everything. > Starfall.com has an amazing set of learning tools for reading eduction, including a bunch of games. It is only one of many, but surely one of the more significant, tools we use to teach our kids to read. Of course, one of the tricks to this kind of early learning is to make these things interactive one-on-one time with other humans to decrease the negative effects of screen time. We did this without our son before he could use the mouse on his own and for some time after that. He is ~4.5yr now and fully literate, so we try not to let him spend too much time on startfall.com unless he is teaching his sister (she's ~2.6yr and has almost mastered the alphabet sounds), but he/we play many of the other games suggested in this thread now. He'll be getting his own computer in 6-8 months I expect, which will run Edubuntu if it is still relevant by then. I installed that on a laptop for a friend's kid and he loves it. Plenty of games and other tools to play with including most of the FOSS options mentioned here, and access to the full Ubuntu repos if you want more.
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