Kat, I think the development stuff is fascinating. They become people. Their little brains are so unlike ours for so long, but they're growing and changing as you watch. I kinda don't believe in it, so I'm fascinated to read about it. Plus I like to read about what makes my friends happy.
There's a Uni textbook I half have my eye on, called "How Children Develop" [link] Looks fascinating, just, it's priced like a Uni textbook. Oh, there's also a DVD series called A Child's World (it seems to be out of production now). Only three episodes long, but it covers how a child develops a conception of identity, time, other people's awareness, all that kind of thing. It's excellent viewing.
Like today, Noah articulated a sequence of events, in chronological order that he remembered. His little brain is growing and developing and it thrills me because you can see all of that learning happening.
Eee! That is so cool! Isn't that just awesome to see unfold?
His little brain is growing and developing and it thrills me because you can see all of that learning happening.
I love watching those moments of realization. Although in my case it's usually when I've accidentally shown a friend's child how to do something they really didn't need to know.
50 in ONE PERIOD of AP. Yes. You read that right. 50 kids in one class.
Ho.Lee.Crap. You've got to be kidding me! Do you have a co-teacher? Couldn't they split them up into 2 sections?
aurelia - bwah! that has and will undoubtedly continue to happen with us and Noah.
I just found out something about google. If I google "south korea president" it tells me who the president of South Korea is (Lee Myung-Bak) before it gives me any search results.
That is awesome! I do it for currency (try "155 cad to usd") and time (hong kong time) and weather.
It also works for measurement conversions like yards to metres. Well, probably meters. I love google.
I've been playing with yahoo and bing search in working on my sister's consultancy project, and I find google a good middle ground and less obtrusive with the ads than yahoo.
for a long time, it seems that what comes out of a kid's brain is exactly what you put in. And then one day they start combining, changing, processing stuff and it's so cool watch. I see it earlier with Frisco, probablybecause I know what to watch for. Still cool, though.
Google calculator and converter really is very useful when you are combining numbers from a number of sources. I've been doing stuff where I have to combine statistics about protein in grams per meter, kilograms per hectare, and pounds per acre and having easy conversion at my finger tips without have to keep thinking about what to multiply or where to put the decimal so I can concentrate on making sure my data is valid is nice. Also being able to do stuff like "1.25 billion/12 million * 1.5 trillion" is nice, because you don't have to worry about typing the right number of zeros or the right power of 10 into that equation. (Probably not so nice for an unamerican working with the American version that uses American definitions of billion and trillion. Hmm, wonder if the UK version of google would use the British definitions in that equation.)
for a long time, it seems that what comes out of a kid's brain is exactly what you put in. And then one day they start combining, changing, processing stuff and it's so cool watch. I see it earlier with Frisco, probablybecause I know what to watch for. Still cool, though.
I totally remember the first time I saw it with my (ten years younger) sister when I was bitching about something or other and a few minutes later she piped up with "maybe you could..." and it was just such a wow moment.
