[olpc-help] Do kids really "get" tagging and Journal searching?

[dpbsmith]

I (an adult in the U. S. brainwashed by using a Mac since 1984) find the Journal difficult to use. Do little kids really get the knack of tagging and searching?

It appears to me that to find things in the Journal you really need to tag things--the XO activities don't seem to do much in the way of assigning good titles automatically, and don't seem to tag things automatically at all. It all feels very left-brained, literate, and language oriented.

I feel some cognitive dissonance between the core principle (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Core_principles#Child_Ownership) that
> The XO is designed for the use of children of ages 6 to 12—covering the years of the elementary school—but nothing precludes its use earlier or later in life. Children don’t need to write or read in order to play with the XO and we know that playing is the basis of human learning.

and other statements that

> Despite the flatness of the Journal, finding past entries shouldn't prove difficult thanks to a tagging structure built from the ground up for the laptops...
> 
> Tagging will become a fundamental process for all types of data and activities on the laptops. Fortunately, children have a natural inclination to describe their world and the things they see and do. This actually aids kids in learning, as they will enjoy describing the drawing they've made, the stories they've written, or the composition they produced, and can learn new vocabulary in doing so. Of course, the kid-like desire to describe things doesn't detract from the usefulness of this tag-based system as they grow older.

Are people really finding that 6-12 year old kids are able to tag Journal entries and search for them?