I have decided to give my daughter (who is not quite a year old) her own
laptop (an old Sony I have in the garage). I am doing this because
1) I am tired of her sneak attaching me when I am working on my computers
and think if she had her own it would help quell this. So far this has
worked for
Be sure to make it fun!
You can solve your problems at a young age, while creating gender bias,
limitations and hate for all things computer.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Bryan O'Neal
bon...@cornerstonehome.comwrote:
I have decided to give my daughter (who is not quite a year old) her own
Suggestion: Don't give her a computer. The best form of education for
any child or adult does NOT directly involve computers. She will have
computers pushed upon her soon enough, no need to rush it.
If you must, to keep her off your keys, just give her an old keyboard.
Let her imagination
Also, if you give her a computer, LEND it.
I.E: Just boot into or use a LiveDistro so that she can reboot now and have
broken nothing while learning to use a keyboard and mouse.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Alan Dayley ala...@consultpros.com wrote:
Suggestion: Don't give her a computer.
There is a Ubuntu flavor for educational purposes. and it appears to scale well.
http://edubuntu.org/
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Bryan O'Neal
bon...@cornerstonehome.com wrote:
I have decided to give my daughter (who is not quite a year old) her own
laptop (an old Sony I have in the
I think you should have der Hans give her his OLPC machine. Then she could
learn to use it and teach the rest of us. Maybe we could even get her to do
a demo. Obviously she is a very smart almost one year old.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Bryan O'Neal
bon...@cornerstonehome.comwrote:
I
beats my start by 4 years... but my data was trying to force me to
learn C so i balked till that old...
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you should have der Hans give her his OLPC machine. Then she could
learn to use it and teach the rest of us.
On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Alan Dayley wrote:
Suggestion: Don't give her a computer. The best form of education for
any child or adult does NOT directly involve computers. She will have
computers pushed upon her soon enough, no need to rush it.
I second that. My 3-year-old son built a
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote:
On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Alan Dayley wrote:
Suggestion: Don't give her a computer. The best form of education for
any child or adult does NOT directly involve computers. She will have
computers pushed upon her soon
those are cool, they didnt have them when i was a kid...
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Joshua Zeidner jjzeid...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote:
On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Alan Dayley wrote:
Suggestion: Don't give her a computer. The
there was also a really great game called Rocky's Boots we had on
the Apple II+ that was meant to teach about electronics design.
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/831/Rockys+Boots.html
-jmz
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote:
those are cool, they didnt
You're not suggesting that for a 1-year-old, are you?
On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
there was also a really great game called Rocky's Boots we had on
the Apple II+ that was meant to teach about electronics design.
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/831/Rockys+Boots.html
no... try an abacus. :)
-jmz
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote:
You're not suggesting that for a 1-year-old, are you?
On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
there was also a really great game called Rocky's Boots we had on
the Apple II+
After a long battle with technology, Alex Dean wrote:
On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
there was also a really great game called Rocky's Boots
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/831/Rockys+Boots.html
You're not suggesting that for a 1-year-old, are you?
Rocky's Boots was a
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