This article from Parent and Scholastic magazine was my favorite one from the batch of articles I used in my assignment. Articles for parents on how to interact with their kids and play with educational purpose are usually good. Some of them do tend to be of the "Duh, what do you THINK I do with my kids" variety. But I'm sure there are people out there that need those as well.
This one was definitely not one of the "duh" varieties. My husband and I have thought of many ways for Alyssa to interact with the computer in an educational way, but this article presented several that we hadn't thought of. Using a scanner to put her paper and crayon/pen/paint pictures into the computer digitally to edit had never ocurred to me. Nor had making a calendar with her of different activities that she does.
Alyssa is almost 4 and a half. I'm not sure I'm going to get her to this: The Kylie Microsoft Commercial . We don't use the camera so much, er, well we do, but we don't get the pictures off and play with them so much. But I bet Alyssa could whup Kylie in web surfing!
Several things my husband and I teach Alyssa to do on the computer:
- We open word and make the font very big and let her type whatever she wants. Sometimes we give her words to try to type...we tell her what the letters are she find them on the keyboard.
- We help her get to the drawing program on NickJr and we save the pictures using screen shots and Paint. (stupid thing doesn't let us save!)
- The well known fact: we let her run around in World of Warcraft.
- She sits on our lap and "chats" with the other of us, wherever we are. ("OK, obviously asdkfhasld was Alyssa and not me :)").
As she gets older we'll find even more stuff for her to do! I'm thinking of making some of my own web based activities for her. (Not sure yet, and probably not completely original ones, but I want to customize it to stuff that she really likes).
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