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North19 · 06-10-2011, 12:19 PM

My sons (older just turned eight, younger is almost six) have similarly adjusted to Android in an hour or two. What I love most about how kids master computers is that they seem able to let go of expectations about what will work or happen when you press a button, and they have little fear of messing things up. Mine just explore.

My younger one mainly plays games on the PE: Simon Tatham's Puzzles (which is my fave edge app) and Frozen Bubbles.

My older one liked the PE so much I picked up one through amazon listed (I'm sure incorrectly) for $39.95 the night before they removed the edge listings! I saw it and clicked it within five minutes of its listing, which I know only because five minutes before I'd been browsing a $150 listing and wanted to go back and check it again--and there was the mistake. My guess is it was supposed to go in at $399. I was pretty psyched, though until it arrived I was afraid they'd send me a edge case or one so badly used it wasn't working.

Anyway, once he had his own, he discovered the audio recorder on his own; he has written "books" with illustrations in the journal, and recorded songs and stores in the Audio Recorder. I just got a voice changer app through amazon that he's using to change his voice to sound like a robot or a chipmunk or play it backwards.

He also found and watched the help videos and read the help file on his own, and used that to explore more. He can run the reader and the browser, and he figured out how to change the wallpaper on either screen, and then went out and downloaded images he liked to use as wallpaper.

Oh, and he's taken pics and made "movies" with the camera, all without any assistance from me.

I need to go out and buy him a mini-SD card before he runs out of space as these multimedia files are going to add up.

06-10-2011, 12:19 PM	#5
North19 Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Device: entourage eDGe, pocket eDGe, kindle	My sons (older just turned eight, younger is almost six) have similarly adjusted to Android in an hour or two. What I love most about how kids master computers is that they seem able to let go of expectations about what will work or happen when you press a button, and they have little fear of messing things up. Mine just explore. My younger one mainly plays games on the PE: Simon Tatham's Puzzles (which is my fave edge app) and Frozen Bubbles. My older one liked the PE so much I picked up one through amazon listed (I'm sure incorrectly) for $39.95 the night before they removed the edge listings! I saw it and clicked it within five minutes of its listing, which I know only because five minutes before I'd been browsing a $150 listing and wanted to go back and check it again--and there was the mistake. My guess is it was supposed to go in at $399. I was pretty psyched, though until it arrived I was afraid they'd send me a edge case or one so badly used it wasn't working. Anyway, once he had his own, he discovered the audio recorder on his own; he has written "books" with illustrations in the journal, and recorded songs and stores in the Audio Recorder. I just got a voice changer app through amazon that he's using to change his voice to sound like a robot or a chipmunk or play it backwards. He also found and watched the help videos and read the help file on his own, and used that to explore more. He can run the reader and the browser, and he figured out how to change the wallpaper on either screen, and then went out and downloaded images he liked to use as wallpaper. Oh, and he's taken pics and made "movies" with the camera, all without any assistance from me. I need to go out and buy him a mini-SD card before he runs out of space as these multimedia files are going to add up. Last edited by North19; 06-10-2011 at 12:24 PM.