I'm no expert either :) I *am* keen that any kid (like my 12yo son) doesn't end up having a bad experience. I think there is a big difference between the TRS-80 I typed BASIC into and the options kids have now & I'm not sure regular parents who like me, aren't education professionals, can provide the right guidance & support.
S. On Mon, 29 May 2017 at 04:20, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > Stephen De Gabrielle wrote on 05/28/2017 09:08 AM: > > > But don't discount the potential of throwing a young child at a > > computer with > > > only non-child software on it, and let them figure out > > > how to do what they want, much on their own. That's how the early-1980s > > > home computer kids got started, and that worked out pretty well. > > > Survivorship bias? > > Could be; good point. (I've seen and suspected a lot of survivor bias > in academia, in various ways, especially around the fancy-pants schools, > and around narrow STEM paths; but that's another conversation.) > > I know only a little of the work that has been done on this, by > education and developmental researchers, so I overstated my > non-specialist's opinion. My bad. > > My *anecdotal experience and inexpert intuition* is that self-motivated > play by young children, who are in sponge mode, can be a powerful > learning machine, especially when given helpful nudges/nurturing. > Seymour Papert and others have worked on this. > > And I believe I've observed the influence of people feeling that they > are doing well, or doing badly, at something new. So I suspect that > nudging that, as needed, can be key to the learner putting in enough > time and effort to do well. > > I doubt that these general ideas would be controversial among actual > experts, but of course there must also be a lot more going on and > important, which they also know something about. > > -- Kind regards, Stephen -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
