New toy

From a pre-school school somewhere in Kent. A much larger screen than I have had, never mind interacted with. A proper school, not a private school.

In fact, my PC's and laptops don't do touch screen (at least I don't think they do) and I always do mouse rather than touch pad, so I am not very tactile about all this sort of thing at all. But this screen looks to be showing something like Microsoft's Paint product, and it seems likely that you can touch an object - say the pink heart - to select it and then drag it across the screen to some new position.

Something that one could sort of do using the large magnetic white boards which were once all the thing in the world of work or can still do using fridge magnets.

But doing it on a screen is clearly much more versatile, even if you are too short to reach all the interesting controls at the top of the screen. Maybe there is a compromise and you can tap an object twice to get what for me would be the right click menu.

So what are they learning that we did not learn? What, using all the time in which we were not interacting with screens, did we learn that they are not learning? Are they learning to be more dependant on the image, relative to the word, than we were?

Or is all this computing beside the point, with what they are really at being learning to get on with each other?