pnh102
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Before Disney shoots BBR off the web with endless cease-and-desist orders for using the graven image of Mickey Mouse 
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TurtleFan
join:2003-05-03
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| Computer Education looked like Number Munchers. Best Learning Game EVER!
OH, Disney has been alerted. Expect the lawyers by your door within 5 minutes. They have a local branch in every town now  . |
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NetFixer
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| When I was in elementary school?
Let’s date ourselves for a moment; what did computer education look like when you were in elementary school?
Didn't have a computer when I was in elementary school, but when I was in high school my computer looked like this:
At least it wasn't an abacus (I'm not that old).
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pachocco1
join:2002-01-27
Dallas, TX
| Lets give Disney its due credit
Here is the link to the Disney "Edutainment" site.
»playhouse.go.com/v1/marketing/
It is a very nice flash based presentation. My daughter loves it. It offers everything Jump*Start has and more for a yearly fee.
If your cheap, you can use »www.starfall.com . It also is very good and very free (discrete ad support).
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hobgoblin
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| Has it made Kids smarter?
There was no computer equipment in schools when I was a kid.
Are kids smarter with all this computer stuff available?
Or does it make them lazy?
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL | reply to TurtleFan
Re: 5 Minutes
Built in recess......
Great, now the kids can become more obese at an earlier age due to the lack of physical activity.
Why does dodge ball hurt a childs self-esteem when it's played for real but played on a computer it is acceptable? |
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BK3
join:2001-04-10
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| When I was in grade school ...
When I was in grade school, a computer was something you heard about on Star Trek (TOS). No one actually owned one ...
Weren't their recent studies that showed that computers used for learning weren't truly effective?
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Owlbet
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| reply to NetFixer
Re: When I was in elementary school?
said by NetFixer  :Didn't have a computer when I was in elementary school... No computer here either. Learning aids were a number line or flash cards. Neither were really needed, math of any sort came naturally to me. When homework proved problematic, I turned to my teacher or mother or friends for help with a solution. There was no such thing as an instant answer.
In high school business classes a ten-key adding machine was the closest I came to using a computer. And when I finally went to college years after graduating high school, pencils, ledger paper, and an adding machine were the tools I used. I might add that I got the experience in the accounting field before I ever got the education.
A computer can be a wonderful adjunct to a childs' education, but the parents need to take a more active role as well. Some of my most cherished memories from my childhood are of my mother helping me with my homework. |
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Tarheels Fan
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join:2006-01-05 | reply to pnh102
Re: 5 Minutes
haha - i thought of the same thing as soon as I saw it. I think they are the most protective of their trademark. |
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fuzz
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| Word processor
mimeograph machine |
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| When I was in elementary school in the 90s
They had computers at the time but they cost an arm and leg. At school, they had Apple II's - the ones that had built in monitors and floppy drives, no CD-ROM drives wasn't available, my classes had to use the PCs for Oregon Trail, typing games, educational games, learning how to type letters, etc. The Internet wasn't wildly available until I got in the 6th grade, that's when I took keyboarding, learning how to use the Internet, and emailing a friend overseas. Other than that, for homework, my mom or the library would help me. When I got into high school, this was in 1997, I finally got a PC at home in summer '98 to help with homework a bit. But, my mom and the library still helped with homework. Now in college, I have to use the PC for my Computer Network Specialist courses and diploma, but I still have to read textbooks. |
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Desdinova
join:2003-01-26
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Re: Word processor
Plus, kids today will never know the sweet rush to the head that followed the turning over of a test paper and taking the first deep inhalation of that wonderful blue nirvana known as mimeograph ink...
Then again, we never had the unexpected pleasure caused by a test being inturuppted by a flood of porn pop-ups... |
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| said by Desdinova :Plus, kids today will never know the sweet rush to the head that followed the turning over of a test paper and taking the first deep inhalation of that wonderful blue nirvana known as mimeograph ink... Don't forget model glue. There was a reason building those models took sooooooooo long.
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Desdinova
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Gaithersburg, MD | And were so chaotic, disjointed and poorly assembled...akmost as if we weren't focused or something... |
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TransitMan
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| What are Computers?
When I was in grade school through high school, if you had 10 fingers and 10 toes, then you had your adding machine.
In high school, it was the slide rule. And the typewriter, and adding machine. (If you were lucky!)
What needs to be done today is to go back to good old days of mimeograph ink and model glue, paper and pencil, rulers and slide rules, and maybe even an adding machine to see how todays kids would fare with what we used back then.
However, I will concede that the computer does help in looking up those items we used to have look up in 10 year old Encyclopedia Brittanicas. And when we did, it was all out-dated information, not up to date as was wanted by the teachers.
To have kids sit in front of a computer to get an education is just wrong. They learn nothing except how to get fatter and more lazy with each passing day.
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majortom1029
join:2006-10-19
Lindenhurst, NY
| Thats not true. I am a network tech in a library and there is a lot of educational computer games that make learning alot more fun.
Blues Clues learning games, Dora the explorer learning games (hate them lol) , and a clifford learning game seem to be the ones the kids like the best.
So before spouting wrong info out please do some research. |
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TransitMan
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| Maybe if you thought about what I said instead of telling me I am wrong, you'd understand.
There's nothing wrong with so-called educational software, but in the real world kids need more than to know how to sit in front of a computer all day and do nothing physical.
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desreversti
join:2002-09-03
San Antonio, TX
| reply to S_engineer
Re: 5 Minutes
Haha, oh dodge ball. I substitute teach at my old high school and when I was coaching PE about a month ago, I tried to get a game of dodge ball, but was not allowed to due to some supposed injury that occurred. Instead, I had them play hand ball which to me seems quite a bit more violent! |
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Transmaster
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| This is one of the reasons I got out of teaching. even back 20 years ago there where even then teachers who where to lazy to teach and they would sit their kids down in front of Apple II's and let the computer baby sit. I told them this was total crap which did not make them very happy
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Rob A
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That was the game from my time back in elementary school, damn was that a fun game. |
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