At LIFT, 2007
We found that children from 6 to 13 years old can self instruct in a connected environment
irrespctive of anything that we could measure.
So, if they have access to the computer they will teach themselves, including intelligence
I could not find a single correlation with anything
But it had to be in groups, and that maybe is of greater interest to this group because all of you are talking about groups
So here is power of what a group of children can do, if you lift adults' intervention.
.... over technical detalis and statistcics, etc ...
We got a clean learning curve, almost exactly the same a what you would get in the school. I leave it bad
because , it says t all, doesn't it?
What could they learn to do? Basic window functions, browsing, painting, chatting and email, games and educational material, music downloads, playing video, in short what all of of us do.
And over three hundred children would become computer literatate and be able to do all of these things in six months, with one computer. So, how did they do that? If you calculate the actual time of access they worked for minutes per day, so that more is happening: what you actually have is: there is one child operating on the computer surrounded by usually three other children who are advising him to what they should do. If you test them, all fall
sixteen childersalso advising, usually wronlgly