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Hydra system as mine came in today. I was puzzled why there was no CDROM so I called.
They said the cd files are in the software catalog on the sales site.
so i have source code files now.
I have a 3 year old granddaugher I'd love to make a Can Your Baby READ game and teach reading to 3 - 5 yr olds.
Richard
They said the cd files are in the software catalog on the sales site.
so i have source code files now.
I have a 3 year old granddaugher I'd love to make a Can Your Baby READ game and teach reading to 3 - 5 yr olds.
Richard
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Yes, you are in the right place. If it has a Propeller in it, or attached to it, we do that.
I'm guessing you have some back ground in electronics and programming.
A reading game would be a great Propeller project. Keep us posted as to your progress.
Best regards.
you are free to do what ever you want. I want to explain why I think teaching reading to 3-5 year old children with a screen isn't a good idea.
Threrefore I want to use an example that would be even worser:
imagine a 2 year old little child watching TV.
A TV screen is 2-dimensional (the upcoming 3D-screens are not much better) this screen is showing a very poor copy of the reality.
the sound does NOT come from exactly the place where in reality and there is a small delay additional delay on the video (maybe 50 milliseconds)
between visual and sound.
Now Imagine this child in the real world. In one hand a plastic bowl in the other hand a spoon.
Hitting the spoon onto the bowl. It feels a resistance when the spoon hits the bowl. The sound comes EXACTLY from the place of the hit in exactly the real
time - sound needs to travel from the bowl to the ear.
A 2 year old child has still to do a lot of practising with his perceptual systems. Now if this 2 year old child would be just watching TV for hours every day.
Its perceptual systems would evolve to a crippled thing compared to a child playing in the garden with real objects, real other children, real parents.
If the sensitive training phase is over not much can be done later. The TV-child's destiny would be to go to a school for mentally weak pupils. Just because
his perceptual systems are on a low level because of too poor training.
You want to do it for a 3 to 5 year old child helping it learnin reading. In this age the effect will be smaller but I'm sure your intention is doing a real good thing to this child.
The real god thing is to do real things. I mean with real objects instead of a screen. Of course this can include electronics but in a helping function not as the central thing.
One spontanious idea I have for this is: Making letters from wood with any kind of contacts or blackwhite-pattern on the backside. The screen shows a word for a short period of time
and the child has to take the right letters and laying them in the right order on a special surface that can check it and then giving feedback.
Anyhow what a poor copy of the reality is the feedback of a WAV-file with your voice compared to you sitting in REAL next to this child smiling at the child saying "well done!" and tapping on his shoulder
I think you got the thing.
Find a project that trains his senses in various ways in the real world.
Here is a link for a multimedial game for getting familiar with letters
http://www.die-alphas.com/
It includes funny letters made from rubber, a manual with games to listen and later reading, A CD to listen to while looking into a picturebook and a DVD.
My daughter started using this in the age of four. For the reasons mentioned above watching the DVD was a rare event (once every 2 weeks)
Listening to the CD and looking into the picturebook she could do when ever she wanted. Later we started reading single letters in everyday's life.
Sitting at lunch reading the letters on the bottle of orange juice or whatever object with letters on it came across but only if she wanted to do it.
(which was quite often because I designed it as a funny game and avoided anything to act as a strict teacher)
Then I discovered a reading learning method from a primary school-teacher. This teacher a woman) was teaching reading with this method for 18 years and not a single child
in all here classes suffered from dyslexic!!! Now in my opinion that's impressive! She must be doing something really right!
This method uses a box with letters and a set of 40 pictures with the word of the object shown in the picture.
Here's a small picture of it http://archiv.vs-thalmaessing.de/schuljahr20032004/konzeptionlesen/fotoslesen/grossfireworks70/bildwortkarten.jpg
A central element of the method is to DE-construct words backwards
Example: elefant, elefan, elefa, elef, ele, el, e.
But there is a lot more. Here's a description of the method in german
http://archiv.vs-thalmaessing.de/schuljahr20032004/konzeptionlesen/prinzip.htm
maybe you can use google translator for it.
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Two short lines with a link to a posting in the general discusion-forum containing the whole text.
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best regards
Stefan
You obviously haven't seen any children interact with Angry Birds and other Apple apps for children.
There is an aspect to kids using computers that is rather mysterious, but sophisticated. Often the outcomes are that children adopt and master features very early on that are difficult for adults.
I can appreciate your motives are to protect the child from becoming less that what might otherwise possible. But this is 2012 and digital media is very much a significant part of almost every child's environment. Furthermore, language is an abstraction from reality by its very nature and we all started with some rote recognition of letters, words, and sounds. In many cases, the computer is far more patient and consistent than a human teacher can ever be. A child may actually learn faster and be less traumatized than being taught by an impatient adult.
On the other hand, there is significant proof in research that the best and the brightest of students have consistently been the one's that were regularly read to by adults. And there is even substantial proof that they tend to study throughout their lives in the same place that they were most read to. For some it is in bed, others it is the kitchen, and others the living room.
If you rally want to help a child, read to them regularly and make it interesting and fun.
you are right we are in 2012 and electronics is everywhere. This does not mean that it is all good.
Whatever you are practising and training you will become good in it. A child that starts playing the
violine at an age of 5-7 and has practised more than 10.000 hours until it is 18 will be playing on a world-class level.
The area in the brain that is responsible for motoric control of the left hand is significantly bigger than at averaged people.
And it seems surely a must to control your fingers at a precision of 1/1000 inche to hit the tones right.
A child that starts playing videogames at the age of 5 practising that much might be a world-class professional at the age of 16.
But what is with the rest of its education? What should your child be able to do if it leaves highschool? What is it worth in the grownup world
if the area inside of your brain that is responsible for high-speed reaction of your thumbs is really big and the ones responsible for reading
or problem-solving are stunted?
In New Zealand there was made a longterm study with 1000 families over 30 Years. They analysed a lot. One result is the
probability to reach a higher graduation has a big correlation to how many hours the child watches TV.
The more hours of daily watching TV the less the percentage of a higher graduation.
At several ages there a other effects. Watching a lot of TV in the age of 5-8 results in less concentration capabilities in school at
the age of 13-15. The upshot of this study is: let your children watch only a little bit TV. I think it is the same with video-games.
I think it depends on the dosis and the mixture.
OK enough about education in general
back to Richard: I apologise. I forgot to say welcome to the forum!
Tell us a little bit more about what you want to do and what your former experience with mciros and electronics is.
Feel free to ask as many questions as you like Even the easy questions. Easy questions offer other forum users that are not so much advanced to
help others too.
best regards
Stefan
But the learning of alphabet, number systems, and pronunciation are rather rote processes that the computer can contribute to early development, if deployed wisely.
Back when I started my journey into computers with an IBM360 and learning Fortran on punch cards, the university imposed a 'no games' rule as they felt that very little was learned and much time was wasted.
It might be far more rewarding to teach a child how to manage a full accounting system on a computer as a real-world game. After all, profit and loss are how the real world keeps score.