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#1 2007-05-31 12:28:55

johntrinder
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Registered: 2007-05-31
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[Suggestion] Constant monitoring/interacting facility via a simple LAN

I'm trying to wean my 7 year old onto Scratch which I have only recently downloaded. She finds it interesting/exciting and has a grasp of simple program flow and is well able to create her own sprites and manipulate them simply.

The facility I would really like is something similar, I think, that Squeak utilises. I have 2 PCs in the same room that are networked and it would be very advantageous if we could both share the same open application such that I could do screen manipulations whilst telling her what I'm doing. She could likewise do the same.

I think that this type of interaction would greatly speed up her learning and would be more fun.

Regards

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#2 2007-05-31 13:02:22

kevin_karplus
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Registered: 2007-04-27
Posts: 1000+

Re: [Suggestion] Constant monitoring/interacting facility via a simple LAN

Sounds like a lot of trouble---why don't you both sit at the same computer?

One of the pieces of advice given to TAs in computer science is not to touch the students' keyboards---tell them what needs to be typed or done.  They'll learn more by doing it themselves, even if it is frustratingly slow for you as guru.

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