A Magic Square Game for 7 year olds
A small magic square game, just a step beyond addition. Comments welcome.
Archive for children_5_to_7
Class 2 Computer Science Curriculum
I have a text book in front of me, seems to be specific to a school called Kensri in Hebbal, Bangalore, so not sure about other schools. On the cover, it says “Computer Technology”. This text book is best described as a user manual for MS Paint. Each page describes one of the icons and then puts out an exercise. I am yet to form an opinion on this book but a few things come to mind based on personal experience.
Just having a computer around seems to be enough to attract a 5+ year old to play with it. Paint is simple to use and provides immediate gratification, children seem to get hooked on and learn quickly, without being coaxed or coerced or taught. So then would a computer lab not be more productive by just putting children in front of Paint and letting them explore rather than have a user manual type text book. Presumably the book is just meant for structuring activity and most of the action still happens on a terminal. But still, one can’t help thinking that this is a retrograde step: while all of modern software and UI is aimed at overcoming the deficiencies of a linear, sequential, old style book by providing richer interactive and navigational experience, here one is taking a rich UI and converting it back to the same old linear, sequential, old style book.
Anyway, the cover also says “Theme 1″, I am waiting to see what else is in store, maybe a user manual for word, excel, powerpoint etc will follow in quick succession.