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By: Aakash Android Tablet from India: $35 for Indian Student, $60 Retail | Curious Cat Gadgets

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:28:53 +0000

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By: Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog » Letting Children Learn – Hole in the Wall Computers

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:02:34 +0000

[...] The hole in the wall experiments are exactly the kind of thing I love to lean about. I wrote about them in 2006, what kids can learn. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:44:13 +0000

I’m a huge fan of the idea of Nature vs Nurture (siding with Nurture). The idea of Tabula Rasa means that everyone starts off pretty close to the same (give or take some IQ, etc.), and has the ability to learn to be anything. If we give people computers when they’re young, they’ll go to Wikipedia and learn things really fast, especially if they computers are pre-loaded with things that will encourage learning, etc.

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Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:15:10 +0000

[...] Give Children a Computer and Stand Back – $100 Laptops for the World by curiouscat Tags: Technology Permalink to: Why [...]

By: Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog » Providing Computer to Remote Students in Nepal

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:34:35 +0000

[...] I believe strongly in the ability of kids to learn if they are just provided some tools that help them do so. See a great post on Hole in the Wall computers. [...]

By: Eva White

Eva White — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:06:17 +0000

I think the experiment you carried out was marvelous. I think the concept of this self learning should be implemented in schools. Actually if I go to see we really become dependent on the tutors to teach us. And like machines we learn what the tutor has taught us. I think it’s great to inculcate this habit of self learning among children. to find solutions to your own problems, if faced with any difficulty we are there to help.

By: Monica

Monica — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:38:58 +0000

I remember seeing a program about this on the tv and found it facinating.

It was amazing how these children managed without guidance to figure it all out. Its almost as if they are preprogrammed to adapt to this computer age.

I wonder if children nowadays will ever experience the simple “toys” of our yesterdays.

I believe that there has probably been more of a leap in the knowledge that they have gleaned over the last decade than at any time before.
Are we going to have a future generation of whizkids, I think we are.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:42:17 +0000

Growing up with a computer in the home has made a huge difference for young people today. They see the internet as a natural extention of themselves. Their blog is a psuedo diary which lets their friends know what happened to them or what is going on after school. My youngest even has a blog – she turned the picture book we posted online after she was born into her own page and she is only 10 years old!

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:23:38 +0000

I totally agree with you Fergus. My nephews and nieces are even younger as your ten years old. I am amazed every time when I see hem browse through my own free games website I once put together for them. They learn so quickly! If I think what I did at that age, it was probably nothing but playing outdoors with a ball when the weather was fine and reading comics and books inside when it was raining or cold. On the other end I don’t know if kids are happier these days knowing so much already. Sometimes I have the feeling that kids can’t be true kids anymore.