If you know just even a little about computers then this is a recommended read:
http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/0 ... computers/
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DaddyLes wrote:I think it's time to hand over an old PC for their use, and just plain letting them explore, the way I did.
Shigy wrote:I have put this up in the toilet. XKCD made it as a bit of a joke but like a lot of things they do it's also surprisingly accurate.
Shigy wrote:On a side note that TL:DR pissed me off. I read the whole thing and generally do but why put a TL:DR in that's not anything.
Gridfan wrote:Same reason I cringe all the time on youtube at the start or end of videos. To explain what I mean let me tell a very apt joke:
What do you call a YouTuber who turns into a werewolf?
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Gridfan wrote:DaddyLes wrote:I think it's time to hand over an old PC for their use, and just plain letting them explore, the way I did.
Heh! Maybe format the drive on it, take out all the components and put them beside the computer and then hand then a disk (or USB stick) with Windows on it. Tell them to assemble the PC and then install windows and then make non-administrator accounts (one for each of themselves) and then to get a web browser installed and a word processing program installed (etc) on each account. And they gotta figure it out themselves (they can work together if they want) by using google as a starting point.
(and then check their work when they are done, make sure they didn't get any malware on it.)
If they manage to figure it all out for themselves they'll probably be the most computer savvy kids in their school.
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