Helping Clem with her homework. The brief was “what would you do” and the required media was “any” which I felt was vague and demanding for a 5-year-old.
Undaunted, Clemmie wanted to make a film but I had to point out this was going to be a little challenging given the time we had. We ended up with a Keynote file. She made the time machine slide herself and did all the thinking. The words are all hers. My contribution was to suggest a structure and be her dtp operator:-)
The cool bit was watching her work out what was needed both to make her machine (lots of levers) and to actually get to Laura’s place. It took a couple of minutes but she eventually worked out she needed to know both a place and a date (the date is spoken to the time machine using the on-board microphone and the map of Wisconsin is included above the catering tray).
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Actually Stéphane, I was a little surprised by this one. Normally her homework is to do some reading or some numeracy exercises...
This one came as a bit of a shock, I mean multimedia? she understands computers a bit, but doesn't really get all the basics. She's really cute, when she wants to use the family mac she says I need to use mommy-dot-com and which dot-com are you using Daddy?
It's tough to let them have a go themselves. The temptation is always to grab the mouse and show them, had to smack my hand a few times there:-)
Posted by Dug | March 11, 2008 1:53 PM
Posted on March 11, 2008 13:53
Wow. And you say she's only five?
My my my, I feel so backward some days...
Posted by Stéphane Deschamps | March 11, 2008 1:23 PM
Posted on March 11, 2008 13:23