This is hilarious! Are they actually targetting 3 year olds? This device would be destroyed in moments of my 3 year old getting hold of it.
Teaching a 3-Year-Old to Program Without a Computer Screen
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#22> My main objection to pushing STEM down to the diaper set is that it all seems to involve screen-based learning tools, and I am sure that little ones don’t need more screen time. This thing seems pretty cool. On the whole, we probably need to have more of an awareness of how important tactile and spatial factors are in child development. But the top selling point, according to this reviewer, is that it protects your…
Scientific research quite strongly links excessive screen time to psychological problems in children. You can be spared from science, if you'd like, but it does no good to ignore real problems just because you want to stick your head in the sand.
Edit: And for the bogeyman's sake, if you'd like the "proof", that's what Google is for. This isn't some fringe view. It's about the same as asking me for proof that smoking is damaging.
Re: Teaching a 3-Year-Old to Program Without a Computer Screen
#23This write-up doesn't explain how to program the device, but this page does http://docs.primotoys.com/docs/cubetto-manual.html#introduct... Basically, you program a sequence of commands FORWARD, LEFT, RIGHT. There is also a special command FUNCTION that executes a user-specified sequence of up to four commands. Does it allow the FUNCTION command within the definition of the function? If it does, there's a lot of non-…
So, basically a Big Trak, which had the same features.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak
Big Trak also could fire it's "laser" programmatically.
My kids love it today - age 3 and 7. (Ok, I bought it used, since my parents had long ago donated mine to goodwill. Still, 35 year old toy works great.)
Re: Teaching a 3-Year-Old to Program Without a Computer Screen
#24> My main objection to pushing STEM down to the diaper set is that it all seems to involve screen-based learning tools, and I am sure that little ones don’t need more screen time. This thing seems pretty cool. On the whole, we probably need to have more of an awareness of how important tactile and spatial factors are in child development. But the top selling point, according to this reviewer, is that it protects your…
Scientific research quite strongly links excessive screen time to psychological problems in children. You can be spared from science, if you'd like, but it does no good to ignore real problems just because you want to stick your head in the sand. Edit: And for the bogeyman's sake, if you'd like the "proof", that's what Google is for. This isn't some fringe view. It's about the same as asking me for proof that smoking…
Unfortunately, screen time for young kids is more addictive for parents than cigarettes have ever been to anyone, and look how hard it was (is) to get people to cut that out.
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Re: Teaching a 3-Year-Old to Program Without a Computer Screen
#26> My main objection to pushing STEM down to the diaper set is that it all seems to involve screen-based learning tools, and I am sure that little ones don’t need more screen time. This thing seems pretty cool. On the whole, we probably need to have more of an awareness of how important tactile and spatial factors are in child development. But the top selling point, according to this reviewer, is that it protects your…
Scientific research quite strongly links excessive screen time to psychological problems in children. You can be spared from science, if you'd like, but it does no good to ignore real problems just because you want to stick your head in the sand. Edit: And for the bogeyman's sake, if you'd like the "proof", that's what Google is for. This isn't some fringe view. It's about the same as asking me for proof that smoking…
The problem is that virtually all of the screen time studies don't apply to tablet usage as they were studying the effects of passive screen time such as watching tv. People have a tendency to group the two together as "screen time" but actively playing educational apps on a tablet is very different than passively watching tv. In time we should have a better idea what the effects are but right now tablets are still too new for any comprehensive studies to have been completed.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
stupid people will be stupid. news at 11.
yes how dare they spend their money on their first born!
If they want to spend money on their first born, there are far better, more rational ways to do it. $199 in a 529 plan turns into $2k by college time. $199 in used clothes or legos will go a lot further at that age.
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#28Not only. In Italy there is a toy that explain the BCD (Binary coded decimal) with colored tiny balls. http://www.quercettistore.com/prodotti/rami About 30 years ago.. Sorry but this not happen only in Silicon Valley.
Re: Teaching a 3-Year-Old to Program Without a Computer Screen
#29Not sure if it's suitable for children 3 year old (mine are older already), but CS Unplugged, http://csunplugged.org/, is an inspiring collection of free (!) learning activities teaching Computer Science topics through games and puzzles using cards, strings and pencils and some paper. CS concepts like binary number representation, different types of algorithms, data compression and error detection are taught without programming code or the use of a computer.
There's a nice write up on this in an article in the Communications of the ACM: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/3/183598-reaching-a-broad....
Re: Teaching a 3-Year-Old to Program Without a Computer Screen
#30> My main objection to pushing STEM down to the diaper set is that it all seems to involve screen-based learning tools, and I am sure that little ones don’t need more screen time. This thing seems pretty cool. On the whole, we probably need to have more of an awareness of how important tactile and spatial factors are in child development. But the top selling point, according to this reviewer, is that it protects your…
Scientific research quite strongly links excessive screen time to psychological problems in children. You can be spared from science, if you'd like, but it does no good to ignore real problems just because you want to stick your head in the sand. Edit: And for the bogeyman's sake, if you'd like the "proof", that's what Google is for. This isn't some fringe view. It's about the same as asking me for proof that smoking…
Correlation != causation. Is screen time per se that would create some issues with kids, or is it the lack of real communication between parent and kid?
I love to sit down and actively watch (i.e. point, name, discuss) a show with my 3 y/o son. When not excessive, I feel this is good for both of us.