How can children be introduced to digital technology and the internet in a playful way? At what age is this appropriate? And how can this be done without exposing children to all the negative aspects?

DandomRude@lemmy.world · 15 days ago

How can children be introduced to digital technology and the internet in a playful way? At what age is this appropriate? And how can this be done without exposing children to all the negative aspects?

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca · 15 days ago

You’re a genius. I installed Linux on an old chromebook and the amount of times my kid would alt-tab out of scummvm or dosbox or whatever was redonkulous.

Also Linux is about as kid-friendly as a honey badger

grue@lemmy.world · edit-2 15 days ago

My hot take: good.

I’ve got my kids using Linux on Raspberry Pis, and I honestly want them to break it so that then they have to figure out how to fix it.

I mean, that’s basically how I learned to use computers (except I was using DOS)…

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca · 14 days ago

Same re: DOS. I still catch myself typing dir /w in the terminal erry now and then

applemao@lemmy.world · 14 days ago

Makes them learn. The spoon feeding software is part of the problem of our dumb society.