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For some examples - my little one can find his online homework, can play around with Scratch (they use that at school, too, as an extra-curricular activity), and can find YouTube. He can create things in Tux Paint and print them off. He's been able to circle-strafe since he was two because he'd seen me do that, and he's released his own music because he'd seen my other half do that. He can open Steam and pick a game to play, and he can run server commands in Minecraft. If a particular child is interested in creating digital artwork, animations, long-form writing, or whatever, it's only really a case of pointing them towards the appropriate tool and letting them go, with maybe finding some specific resources if they need to solve a particular problem.
The normal place to hear it in a childs' education is in advertisement for extra- curricular "computing courses".
I've a information about that.
If schools sell "computer skills" on top of the normal curriculum they, in my experience, always mean blind typing.
Blind typing is a useful, but not a deciding tool to have in your toolbox.
There is a giant array of tools available for it(parents are a really profitable target audience).
My advice if you want to teach your kids this: buy stickers and/or post-its in the local store stick them on the key caps and start training with KTouch.
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The kids use computers at school for quite a bit of learning, including typing, math, reading, even presentations (my 6yo had to do a digital presentation last year). I was kinda thinking resources in the intro to programming realm. That seems to be the main thing lacking from school.
On the plus side, I *tried* to explain a bit of the terminal to my oldest.... Now They will only turn off the computer using terminal commands, lol!!
Thanks for the advice, I'll do more "co-computing" (is that the right term?). I really like that idea especially since we can talk through frustrations (and hopefully set the stage for talking about online interactions once we get there)
Thank you friends!!
Ps - throwing a vote in for Besiege! My now 10yo really enjoys the building part and the challenges of the puzzles. I got the idea of having them try it after watching them build all sorts of contraptions in Zelda.
There are resources like Kids Can Code for tutorials end examples and things, but also Human Resource Machine. If the fundamentals of working out how to instruct a computer to do your bidding and coming up with your own algorithms are things that appeal to them then they're likely to enjoy Human Resource Machine; if not, then they probably won't enjoy programming.
That's the very game with which I tried to show my 6yos some weeks ago what strange stuff daddy is doing all the day in front of the computer when working. :D
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I have also enjoyed Later Alligator which is equally silly, but with gameplay more focused on mini-games.