Hi, my name’s Aaron Powell and I’m a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. My area of specialty is front-end web dev and .NET (especially F#), but I enjoy doing silly things with technology.
My eldest is almost 4 and using our phone (to watch TV) is a special treat (being well behaved, helping with jobs around the house, that kind of thing). We don't have an iPad or Netflix or anything like that so so he's probably less exposed than most people.
Instead, his exposure to tech is more at the computer front. He's got a toy laptop (VTech one) with some games that he plays with while sitting at the desk with me. I've also got a Cozmo robot that he like to play with (but more pushing it around the floor than anything!) and he's trying to talk to the Google Home but has little success with that! 🤣
I was talking to a colleague about teaching kids coding, they said that one approach is to remove the computer from it and get kids to write down instructions for a parent to do, "Stand on 1 foot", "Jump", "Take 5 steps" and then introduce loops "Do it 3 times". I'm waiting to my boys are a bit older and then we'll see if we can't try that out as a bit of a game.
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My eldest is almost 4 and using our phone (to watch TV) is a special treat (being well behaved, helping with jobs around the house, that kind of thing). We don't have an iPad or Netflix or anything like that so so he's probably less exposed than most people.
Instead, his exposure to tech is more at the computer front. He's got a toy laptop (VTech one) with some games that he plays with while sitting at the desk with me. I've also got a Cozmo robot that he like to play with (but more pushing it around the floor than anything!) and he's trying to talk to the Google Home but has little success with that! 🤣
I was talking to a colleague about teaching kids coding, they said that one approach is to remove the computer from it and get kids to write down instructions for a parent to do, "Stand on 1 foot", "Jump", "Take 5 steps" and then introduce loops "Do it 3 times". I'm waiting to my boys are a bit older and then we'll see if we can't try that out as a bit of a game.