Back in the old days I had a friend who posessed some strange magical powers. He was able to fix any hardware with almost anything tool he found.
Once he was working on my Amiga 500 with a russian military bayonette. He took out a diode which was controlling the brightness of one of the two leds on the front. Snap-snap, it was done.
Then, just for fun, he took out all the chips and the processor from the sockets (paula, denise, m68000) and put them on his T-shirt like buttons. It was fun. Then he put everything back nicely. After switching on, the computer did show any sign of life. It was not fun.
The guy looked at it, said "whoops", took out the processor (M68000), turned it around by 180 degrees, then inserted it again. The computer turned on, and worked perfectly.
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From the economical point of view, you are right.
I just want to avoid making our kids dependent on the technology.
They should master and understand it, but if we going this way they will never learn to write, only to type.
Writing is good. Reading a book is good. Playing outside is good.
Meeting with the opposite sex is good. (Doing things with them appropriate to the actual age of the parties, of course...:) But it IS good:-)
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I meant pencil and paper in a more general way. It is generally a good thing to expose our kids to non-virtual things. Pencil, paper, wooden swords, play balls, backyard houses, you name it.
Show them the nature. Not on screen. they should not get scared of a sheep at age of ten.
They can (and will) learn computers anyway. But at least, give them a chance.
Let them use their hands AND brain.
A friend of mine's cellphone broke down and he suddenly lost all his contacts. He could not recall a single phone number by heart, tho he was using to call those numbers daily.
Scary.
I also am lost without my PDA. But since that cellphone failure I making sport of memorizing the important phone numbers. It was really difficult at the beginning. Now it's getting easier.
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Back in the old days I had a friend who posessed some strange magical powers. He was able to fix any hardware with almost anything tool he found.
Once he was working on my Amiga 500 with a russian military bayonette. He took out a diode which was controlling the brightness of one of the two leds on the front. Snap-snap, it was done.
Then, just for fun, he took out all the chips and the processor from the sockets (paula, denise, m68000) and put them on his T-shirt like buttons. It was fun. Then he put everything back nicely. After switching on, the computer did show any sign of life. It was not fun.
The guy looked at it, said "whoops", took out the processor (M68000), turned it around by 180 degrees, then inserted it again. The computer turned on, and worked perfectly.
From the economical point of view, you are right.
:) But it IS good :-)
I just want to avoid making our kids dependent on the technology.
They should master and understand it, but if we going this way they will never learn to write, only to type.
Writing is good. Reading a book is good. Playing outside is good.
Meeting with the opposite sex is good. (Doing things with them appropriate to the actual age of the parties, of course...
I meant pencil and paper in a more general way. It is generally a good thing to expose our kids to non-virtual things. Pencil, paper, wooden swords, play balls, backyard houses, you name it.
:-)
Show them the nature. Not on screen. they should not get scared of a sheep at age of ten.
They can (and will) learn computers anyway. But at least, give them a chance.
Let them use their hands AND brain.
A friend of mine's cellphone broke down and he suddenly lost all his contacts. He could not recall a single phone number by heart, tho he was using to call those numbers daily.
Scary.
I also am lost without my PDA. But since that cellphone failure I making sport of memorizing the important phone numbers. It was really difficult at the beginning. Now it's getting easier.
There is hope.
Give the kids paper and pencils.