Re: Agile education and pragmatic schooling

On Jun 27, 2004, at 22:59, Greg Vaughn wrote:
>  I'd be curious to hear what
> age you introduce your children to computers. We've mostly been holding
> off thus far, but I'd expect by the age of 6 to have some educational
> games to let her play by herself at times.

Greg:

I think it depends on the child. Zachary, our oldest, getting little of 
educational value out of computers. Henry, the 5 year old, sucks up 
knowledge like a sponge, both from the explicitly educational stuff 
(some of which is pretty good) and from other, surprising games. One of 
his big favorites at the moment is the Tycoon series of games, and he's 
learning a whole lot of math and logic from hem.]


Cheers

Dave



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