I homeschooled my oldest son from 0-6 and my daughter from 0-3, and software was a major part of that. Of the three major titles we used, JumpStart, Reader Rabbit, and Disney, I think the most useful was Jumpstart. With my son, we started at 17-18 mos with jumpstart toddler, and bought new titles as he was able to master them. By the time he was six years old, he had approximately 80 titles, including simulation games such Roller Coaster Tycoon, which we played together.
I must stress that this was part of an overall education effort with him, which included reading as many as 6 books a day to him, spending time each weekday on phonics, using tactiles to teach math, etc..., but the end result was that, when he entered kindergarten, he was tested at a fourth grade reading level.
I believe the software was fundamental in things like sound differentiation, phonics rules practice, vocabulary work, and drilling concepts which he learned outside the computer. I think it is very important to spend personal time with your children reading and doing math, though, because what they crave at that age is simply alot of one on one or one on two time with their parents. (I don't buy the concept of "quality time." I think that it is a cop out -- you can't give your employer less time and just call it quality.)
It's just my experience and opinion, but I think that's what you asked for.
Any further questions, you're welcome to email me.
And Shell isn't even German...you'd think they'd look out for their own, at least.
and bodanske.com?
I guess I'm lucky there aren't any large corporations with that name...or maybe it's the corporations that are lucky.
Related news:
This story is from the Bangkok Post and discusses Thailand's National Electronic and Computer Technology Center ( www.nectec.or.th ) and their ongoing fight to lower the extremely high (79%) rate of piracy by offering a standard for a linux-only computer with a special desktop-only distro they have created for thais. The story can be found at http://www.bangkokpost.com/211101_Database/21Nov20 01_data79.html
Sorry, I don't know HTML
Thai PC assemblers to form association
Faster `budget' PC expected next month
Local PC assemblers will form their own association in an effort to give a voice to local entrepreneurs and promote their budget PCs to the public.
The 13 firms that joined the so-called budget PC project, in conjunction with the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec), are expected to establish the association by the end of this year.
After collaborating on the budget PC project, the companies have decided to co-operate permanently, according to spokesman Pisit Perksanusak.
``Apart from collaboration among the local PC companies, the objective is to set up an association so that local entrepreneurs can share opinions and promote IT utilisation at a low price,'' Mr Pisit said.
The association will not be restricted to local companies, however, and international firms that assemble locally can also become members.
The budget PC project was launched on October 1 this year and distributed some 10,000 PCs in the first month.
The project will also change its name from ``Budget PC'' to ``Thai computer with Nectec quality''.
Prateep Uersukcharoenkul, sub-committee chairman for project development, said the project will offer a higher performance PC in December.
``We are about to finalise the assembly parts,'' said Mr Prateep, adding that the basic specification of the new model would include an Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Palomino.
By the end of December, the existing specification of the budget PC will also change due to the technology cycle.
According to Nectec director Dr Thaweesak Koanantakool, the budget PC project allows more Thai people to use a computer. The price of 19,900 baht is cheaper than for comparable PCs, he pointed out.
The project aims to distribute some 100,000 PCs. ``If it is done according to the target, the country can save 150 million baht, Dr Thaweesak claimed, adding that the project can also benefit local assemblers and related suppliers.
It's possible he was talking about the book, which was mostly about the unmitigated hubris it took to do something like this in the first place. The movie took almost all of the moral soapboxing out.
One doesn't "struggle" to mount cdrom, floppy, USB drive.
One might "struggle" to mount USB drives
I've been using linux since 2.0.4 and I struggle with this one... Example: several times recently my CDs and floppies have refused to unmount, claiming they are busy. ps -aux gives no hint. I cannot force it with root. It will not work as it should.
It is at points like this that I sigh and realize that no normal person would deal with it
My question is: how is this offtopic, given that I had read the same article three days before on Slashdot? And then it was the fifth time in two days we had a duplicate. Seemed appropriate.
"That kind of thinking is wrong," says Gelernter. "The PC isn't a Swiss Army knife. It's like a hammer. People don't want a million different tools. They want a single hammer that can do a million things, because it's a tremendously flexible, elegant and powerful tool."
I saw this and thought of you immediately:)
Although I left after four years, the Army holds many perks that are often overlooked.
1. They will pay off your college loans while you are in. The unbelievable weight that gets off of you is staggering. Although the pay is not great, if you include the roughly $15,000/yr that they pay off, it ain't shabby.
2. Promotion is much faster than in other services. That means that, if you are single, you will get out of a double room that much faster or, if married, get a larger house.
3. This may not sound like a pro, but: the competition is less severe. I mean, the AF and Navy have all the best and brightest, so, in the Army, if you aren't lazy and don't mind running, you will stand out immediately as someone who knows something. You will be a larger fish in a smaller pond.
4. If you are perfectly clean, you will probably get that NSA or whoever job anyway, because they are all joint service staffed.
5. It's a lot more sexy to say you program AND shoot AND blow sh*t up.
My experience: in four years, I learned two languages, got out of debt, payed off student loans, finished my degree, AND got C4 training, 2 weeks sport climbing training, worked with SF, and fired virtually every weapon Spec Forces had. Not a bad way to spend four years.
Email me if you want to talk more
My best friend sells Thai jewelry over the internet, using PayPal and others, which block Thailand from using their website (what reason, I don't know). That is his reason for using a service like this, not TOTAL privacy or anonimity because of paranoia on his part. There are some VERY legitimate uses for these things.
My Ex's mother, when confronted with a telemarketer, took the bull by the horns and began to ask all the telemarketer wuestions: Name, Address, Ph, SS Number, etc, until they just hung up.
It's funny: I'm not sure whether I agree with you or not about the credibility of the article, but (almost) all of the responses to your comment remind me of a Biblical debate. "Well, when Paul misquotes Isaiah, maybe what he meant was...." Because we all know he couldn't just be wrong.
Anyway, when I read the first paragraph, I didn't take it as reality, because I could see the Linux evangelist at work ( and slow on the flamefests, because I use EXCLUSIVELY Linux) quoting what no one in their right mind would say: "Hey, I just switched, and I don't miss anything from Windows at all."
That's funny, because, after using Linux for 3 years, I decided to switch to Debian 2.2, and making my default choice of config to "Critical" the way you say, and was told that almost certainly my system would be broken. My other alternative with higher config options brought me to my knees as many packages' options were difficult to understand, and took me hours. Took me hours just for the setup, after which I needed to upgrade to XF4 to get out of 640x480 mode
I guess that people aren't jumping in head first into this one means that you've really asked a good "Ask Slashdot" question -- one that 80% of the guys can't answer. No one's even brave enough. Congrats! Oh yeah, looks like maybe I got 1st post
I don't know about you, but in my KDE 2.2.1, all my Konqueror (and any other multiple window app) all fall under on taskbar item. When I click, I pull up a menu of all windows for that app. Takes some getting used to, but solves your problem.
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In fact, Archaeopterix, the example most touted, has been taken off the list as having feathers at this point, but it takes Hollywood, textbooks and professors time to catch up with current theory.
I know there is some small adressing of this below, but, when the "Meteorite Theory" came out in the mid eighties, the press and hollywood jumped all over it, while respectable scientists were calling it "flaky" and "unlikely." The evidence of sediment was rebutted as overstated, stratigraphically incorrect, and, in any case, would be inconclusive if correct. Since when did this theory become widely accepted except by the semi-educated? When I left the field in the late 80's, it was still laughable.
I have to say that, for the work I do, I WISH apps in Linux would load like XP. It is the most impreesive thing I have seen in it. Click and BOOM there the app is. Start typing. I prefer to use Koffice, but, despite being lighter, it takes at least five times as long to load as Word on the same machine (and OpenOffice 638C gives me a required coffee break / asteroids game)
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I homeschooled my oldest son from 0-6 and my daughter from 0-3, and software was a major part of that. Of the three major titles we used, JumpStart, Reader Rabbit, and Disney, I think the most useful was Jumpstart. With my son, we started at 17-18 mos with jumpstart toddler, and bought new titles as he was able to master them. By the time he was six years old, he had approximately 80 titles, including simulation games such Roller Coaster Tycoon, which we played together.
I must stress that this was part of an overall education effort with him, which included reading as many as 6 books a day to him, spending time each weekday on phonics, using tactiles to teach math, etc..., but the end result was that, when he entered kindergarten, he was tested at a fourth grade reading level.
I believe the software was fundamental in things like sound differentiation, phonics rules practice, vocabulary work, and drilling concepts which he learned outside the computer. I think it is very important to spend personal time with your children reading and doing math, though, because what they crave at that age is simply alot of one on one or one on two time with their parents. (I don't buy the concept of "quality time." I think that it is a cop out -- you can't give your employer less time and just call it quality.)
It's just my experience and opinion, but I think that's what you asked for.
Any further questions, you're welcome to email me.
And Shell isn't even German...you'd think they'd look out for their own, at least.
and bodanske.com?
I guess I'm lucky there aren't any large corporations with that name...or maybe it's the corporations that are lucky.
Related news:0 01_data79.html
This story is from the Bangkok Post and discusses Thailand's National Electronic and Computer Technology Center ( www.nectec.or.th ) and their ongoing fight to lower the extremely high (79%) rate of piracy by offering a standard for a linux-only computer with a special desktop-only distro they have created for thais. The story can be found at http://www.bangkokpost.com/211101_Database/21Nov2
Sorry, I don't know HTML
Thai PC assemblers to form association
Faster `budget' PC expected next month
Local PC assemblers will form their own association in an effort to give a voice to local entrepreneurs and promote their budget PCs to the public.
The 13 firms that joined the so-called budget PC project, in conjunction with the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec), are expected to establish the association by the end of this year.
After collaborating on the budget PC project, the companies have decided to co-operate permanently, according to spokesman Pisit Perksanusak.
``Apart from collaboration among the local PC companies, the objective is to set up an association so that local entrepreneurs can share opinions and promote IT utilisation at a low price,'' Mr Pisit said.
The association will not be restricted to local companies, however, and international firms that assemble locally can also become members.
The budget PC project was launched on October 1 this year and distributed some 10,000 PCs in the first month.
The project will also change its name from ``Budget PC'' to ``Thai computer with Nectec quality''.
Prateep Uersukcharoenkul, sub-committee chairman for project development, said the project will offer a higher performance PC in December.
``We are about to finalise the assembly parts,'' said Mr Prateep, adding that the basic specification of the new model would include an Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Palomino.
By the end of December, the existing specification of the budget PC will also change due to the technology cycle.
According to Nectec director Dr Thaweesak Koanantakool, the budget PC project allows more Thai people to use a computer. The price of 19,900 baht is cheaper than for comparable PCs, he pointed out.
The project aims to distribute some 100,000 PCs. ``If it is done according to the target, the country can save 150 million baht, Dr Thaweesak claimed, adding that the project can also benefit local assemblers and related suppliers.
HE knows he'll be rated a troll (just look at his sig) so why don't you?
It's possible he was talking about the book, which was mostly about the unmitigated hubris it took to do something like this in the first place. The movie took almost all of the moral soapboxing out.
I think that, in 15 years, that distiction (EE and BioChem) may not exist.
I've been using linux since 2.0.4 and I struggle with this one... Example: several times recently my CDs and floppies have refused to unmount, claiming they are busy. ps -aux gives no hint. I cannot force it with root. It will not work as it should.
It is at points like this that I sigh and realize that no normal person would deal with it
My question is: how is this offtopic, given that I had read the same article three days before on Slashdot? And then it was the fifth time in two days we had a duplicate. Seemed appropriate.
I read it in Time, Asia edition (copy, not web)
"That kind of thinking is wrong," says Gelernter. "The PC isn't a Swiss Army knife. It's like a hammer. People don't want a million different tools. They want a single hammer that can do a million things, because it's a tremendously flexible, elegant and powerful tool." :)
I saw this and thought of you immediately
Although I left after four years, the Army holds many perks that are often overlooked.
1. They will pay off your college loans while you are in. The unbelievable weight that gets off of you is staggering. Although the pay is not great, if you include the roughly $15,000/yr that they pay off, it ain't shabby.
2. Promotion is much faster than in other services. That means that, if you are single, you will get out of a double room that much faster or, if married, get a larger house.
3. This may not sound like a pro, but: the competition is less severe. I mean, the AF and Navy have all the best and brightest, so, in the Army, if you aren't lazy and don't mind running, you will stand out immediately as someone who knows something. You will be a larger fish in a smaller pond.
4. If you are perfectly clean, you will probably get that NSA or whoever job anyway, because they are all joint service staffed.
5. It's a lot more sexy to say you program AND shoot AND blow sh*t up.
My experience: in four years, I learned two languages, got out of debt, payed off student loans, finished my degree, AND got C4 training, 2 weeks sport climbing training, worked with SF, and fired virtually every weapon Spec Forces had. Not a bad way to spend four years.
Email me if you want to talk more
My best friend sells Thai jewelry over the internet, using PayPal and others, which block Thailand from using their website (what reason, I don't know). That is his reason for using a service like this, not TOTAL privacy or anonimity because of paranoia on his part. There are some VERY legitimate uses for these things.
My Ex's mother, when confronted with a telemarketer, took the bull by the horns and began to ask all the telemarketer wuestions: Name, Address, Ph, SS Number, etc, until they just hung up.
And because the only thing you *can't* do with an Apache module is make babies. -- But it does serve up lots of porn, and that makes some babies.
Should you still call him a suspect since he confessed on video?
It's funny: I'm not sure whether I agree with you or not about the credibility of the article, but (almost) all of the responses to your comment remind me of a Biblical debate. "Well, when Paul misquotes Isaiah, maybe what he meant was...." Because we all know he couldn't just be wrong. Anyway, when I read the first paragraph, I didn't take it as reality, because I could see the Linux evangelist at work ( and slow on the flamefests, because I use EXCLUSIVELY Linux) quoting what no one in their right mind would say: "Hey, I just switched, and I don't miss anything from Windows at all."
That's funny, because, after using Linux for 3 years, I decided to switch to Debian 2.2, and making my default choice of config to "Critical" the way you say, and was told that almost certainly my system would be broken. My other alternative with higher config options brought me to my knees as many packages' options were difficult to understand, and took me hours. Took me hours just for the setup, after which I needed to upgrade to XF4 to get out of 640x480 mode
I guess that people aren't jumping in head first into this one means that you've really asked a good "Ask Slashdot" question -- one that 80% of the guys can't answer. No one's even brave enough. Congrats! Oh yeah, looks like maybe I got 1st post
I don't know about you, but in my KDE 2.2.1, all my Konqueror (and any other multiple window app) all fall under on taskbar item. When I click, I pull up a menu of all windows for that app. Takes some getting used to, but solves your problem.
I like quiche. You mean you're gay?
Does Slashdot have Alzheimers or do I just get Deja Vu Sooooooo easily?
In fact, Archaeopterix, the example most touted, has been taken off the list as having feathers at this point, but it takes Hollywood, textbooks and professors time to catch up with current theory.
I know there is some small adressing of this below, but, when the "Meteorite Theory" came out in the mid eighties, the press and hollywood jumped all over it, while respectable scientists were calling it "flaky" and "unlikely." The evidence of sediment was rebutted as overstated, stratigraphically incorrect, and, in any case, would be inconclusive if correct. Since when did this theory become widely accepted except by the semi-educated? When I left the field in the late 80's, it was still laughable.
Or -- hehe -- they use Frontpage 2002 to maintain the website, and so are prohibited by the EULA.
I have to say that, for the work I do, I WISH apps in Linux would load like XP. It is the most impreesive thing I have seen in it. Click and BOOM there the app is. Start typing. I prefer to use Koffice, but, despite being lighter, it takes at least five times as long to load as Word on the same machine (and OpenOffice 638C gives me a required coffee break / asteroids game)