I promised my kid they’d get a laptop when they learn to read well enough.
This turned out to be a good motivator and they can now read full books.
The kid likes competitions and challenges. I would like to come up with tasks they can learn to do with the laptop.
The reason I want my children to have access to a computer specifically, is that while TVs and phones are used to consume, computers are used to create.
I will be installing some Linux flavor on this machine, as it is a bit dated.
I was thinking about things like:
- Write a short story
- Install a graphics editing program
- Draw a picture of a cat
To get them started.
Probably I need some easier ones first.
A great skill to have in life regsthing computers is typing fast, so give him the challenge to reach a certain wpm
IT guy here, I disagree, typing fast isn’t really useful enough to dedicate focus to.
I have never formally learned typing fast, I developed my own version of touch typing as I gamed and typed as I grew up.
I am a decently quick typist when typing normally, but my speed absolutely plummet when I do typing speed tests, I find it increadibly annoying to retype stuff from the screen.
Typing speed in and of itself is fairly meaningless, once you have gone beyond the hunt-and-peck stage.