Heh -- C's company got one of those eye-beam devices and used it to film users looking for menu items and working the software and so forth. He says it was very productive and that we can expect substantial improvements in the next version of A Certain Bibliographic Database Package.
My mother always said that the learning-to-read thing was like flipping a switch, and I really do think that's true. I tried to push it last fall but it just wasn't happening, and then bam. Not only did she pick up basic arithmetic, then she got simple reading and in the last couple of weeks she's suddenly started printing, too (all caps and not making her letters in the prescribed way, but we're working on that). I think we can put them in the right environment to learn, but I don't think we can actually /make/ our kids learn.
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Date: 2008-03-26 04:35 pm (UTC)My mother always said that the learning-to-read thing was like flipping a switch, and I really do think that's true. I tried to push it last fall but it just wasn't happening, and then bam. Not only did she pick up basic arithmetic, then she got simple reading and in the last couple of weeks she's suddenly started printing, too (all caps and not making her letters in the prescribed way, but we're working on that). I think we can put them in the right environment to learn, but I don't think we can actually /make/ our kids learn.