20 Jun
2015
20 Jun
'15
6:07 p.m.
On Jun 20, 2015, at 15:00, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
<captainkirk359 at gmail.com> wrote:
So how do we make a 14 year old actually get interested in real world
things as opposed to Minecraft? I think that old minicomputers would
help get kids more interested in real world things, since the
instruction set architecture of an '8, '11, or NOVA are much easier to
work with then x86-64.
I think that will depend strongly on the individual kid in question, who might view the
minicomputer either as a dusty obsolete boring thing, or a fascinating machine unlike
anything (s)he presently takes for granted. If you have a kid and a minicomputer, and your
kid shows any interest in that dusty old box, then run with it. If not, then find
something else that catches their interest in a way that can trick them into learning to
think creatively and solve problems. The end result is much more important than how you
get there.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/