Comments on: OLPC Learning Club – DC http://olpclearningclub.org/about-olpc-lcdc/olpc-learning-club-dc/ a local group of XO laptop enthusiast committed to co-learning, hacking, and expanding the One laptop Per Child computational experience. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:25:29 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Mike Lee http://olpclearningclub.org/about-olpc-lcdc/olpc-learning-club-dc/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Mike Lee Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:33:43 +0000 http://olpclearningclub.org/?p=3#comment-19 Jesse, thanks for the offer. Let's wait until this is a real functioning group. Looking forward to meeting you. Mike Jesse, thanks for the offer. Let’s wait until this is a real functioning group. Looking forward to meeting you.

Mike

]]> By: Jesse Thomas http://olpclearningclub.org/about-olpc-lcdc/olpc-learning-club-dc/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Jesse Thomas Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:30:56 +0000 http://olpclearningclub.org/?p=3#comment-15 I am really excited about this! great idea. If you need help with any branding or web design let me know id love to help out. Jesse // jess3.com I am really excited about this! great idea. If you need help with any branding or web design let me know id love to help out.

Jesse
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]]> By: Tina http://olpclearningclub.org/about-olpc-lcdc/olpc-learning-club-dc/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Tina Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:11:57 +0000 http://olpclearningclub.org/?p=3#comment-10 Hi Wayan: I saw you on 60 Mins. I wanted to share with you that my retarded daughter who knows her letters and numbers to 10, is deaf and has seizures is 99% self-taught on the compture since about age 5. She can only write her name, my name and the words pizza and soda. At first she used KidPix a lot - clicking and clicking to see what happened. She has progressed to Google and You Tube, beginning with images and now videos. She gets her movie boxes, books, my cook books, her picture flash cards, and even food boxes or bottles from which she copies various words that she does not know into the search box to see what she can get. It is fasinating to watch her. While traveling in Nashville, she went on the hotel computer and pulled up Six Flags Amusement Park - how, I don't know but she did it. So the point is, that kids CAN learn on a computer without a lot of instruction. I agree that they will do it better and do it faster with help, but kids are amazing. Funny thing is that "normal" kids ask me how to do this or do that on the computer, and I tell them that if Laney can figure it out, they should try to do it themselves. Thanks for your good works. Hi Wayan: I saw you on 60 Mins. I wanted to share with you that my retarded daughter who knows her letters and numbers to 10, is deaf and has seizures is 99% self-taught on the compture since about age 5. She can only write her name, my name and the words pizza and soda. At first she used KidPix a lot – clicking and clicking to see what happened. She has progressed to Google and You Tube, beginning with images and now videos. She gets her movie boxes, books, my cook books, her picture flash cards, and even food boxes or bottles from which she copies various words that she does not know into the search box to see what she can get. It is fasinating to watch her. While traveling in Nashville, she went on the hotel computer and pulled up Six Flags Amusement Park – how, I don’t know but she did it. So the point is, that kids CAN learn on a computer without a lot of instruction. I agree that they will do it better and do it faster with help, but kids are amazing. Funny thing is that “normal” kids ask me how to do this or do that on the computer, and I tell them that if Laney can figure it out, they should try to do it themselves.
Thanks for your good works.

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