| Title: | Parenting |
| Notice: | Previous PARENTING version at MOIRA::PARENTING_V3 |
| Moderator: | GEMEVN::FAIMAN Y |
| Created: | Thu Apr 09 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1292 |
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Perhaps some one can recommend a better conference to ask.
Several friends have kids who are young teen-agers, and these
kids are naturally real interested in computers. The parents,
like all of us, want to encourage these interests as much
as possible, and I've had several friends ask recently about
'computer education'. Basically how can young kids learn about
computers? Some of these kids have been writing programs for
a while now and are real interested in knowing how computers
work (on the inside).
Our local high school has no courses for this. Our Technical School
may, and i'm checking on this. Any other suggestions? Good books?
Are there simple computer 'kits' that kids could put together (like
a '286 with a small amount of memory or something simple). Do community
colleges teach any 'beginning computer' courses that might work?
Thanks for any suggestions...
bob
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| 992.1 | edu-tainment software? | MARLIN::COLE | Fri Aug 04 1995 14:09 | 21 | |
Have you looked into any of the educational games and/ or educational
software currently on the market for children/teens?
Its seems to me that the shelves in the computer stores are packed with
those types of applications that let the children teach themselves ...
... and not only for small children, but older children as well. I know
that some of the multi-media applications (like Encarta) are pretty slick,
and really keeps the kid's attention with the audio and visual. Of
course, it may end up costing you a few hundred dollars in software,
and if your system needs upgrading, but in the long run it may be well
worth it.
Another option might be to get the kids on America On-line, Prodigy, or
the Internet. Again, once you get things up and running the kids can
pretty much fend for themselves ... though you might want to start with
the first two before letting the kids "loose" on the Internet. Again,
all of these are "learning" tools, where they'll be able to develop a
basic understanding of notes files/bulletin boards/electronic mail and
menu driven systems.
Good luck!
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| 992.2 | DPE1::ARMSTRONG | Fri Aug 04 1995 16:03 | 9 | ||
< Have you looked into any of the educational games and/ or educational
< software currently on the market for children/teens?
the kids I'm talking about surf the net and write small programs.
but they dont know how computers work...memroy, hard drive,
fetching instructions, virtual memory, RISC versus CISC, etc. etc.
These are all things they hear about all the time and they
are interested.
bob
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