Re: [MLUG] News Alert from NYTimes.com

["(8?>" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I think any child's competence related to any previous PC experience is 
proportional to the experience of the person teaching them how to use it 
(and genetics, of course). My daughter learned how boot/reboot my PC and 
login to her desktop at the age of 3, before she could even write her name.

At 10:19 AM 9/7/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>"M. Kovalenko" <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote
>
> > Actually, 6-year-olds are your best audience. They learn the fastest,
> > and will continue using what they learned early on.
>
>Very true, for the most part.  On the other hand, I did some work at a
>school for a while, and it's incredible just how many kids who have been
>around computers for years still can't figure out how to do ANYTHING with
>them.  I think it would be more accurate to say that some 6-year-olds are
>capable of becoming very competent very quickly, while the other half
>decides that the monitor is a good place to draw with markers (or that the
>disk drive is a good place to store small items).  8)

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