<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Gearhart</b> <<a href="mailto:william.gearhart@gmail.com">william.gearhart@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Oct 15, 2007 9:29 AM
<br>Subject: Children's documentation<br>To: <a href="mailto:annegentle@gmail.com">annegentle@gmail.com</a>, Todd Kelsey <<a href="mailto:tekelsey@gmail.com">tekelsey@gmail.com</a>><br><br></span><div>Anne,</div>
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<div>You mentioned looking for good children's doc w/Webkinz, etc.</div>
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<div>The prior gold standard was Lego building blocks. Cross culture and cross reading-ability (or "no" reading ability). I use their examples in my minimalism workshop. </div>
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<div><a href="http://www.lego.com/en-US/default.aspx" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.lego.com/en-US/default.aspx</a></div>
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<div>The key points:</div>
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<li>Use of pictures (line drawings also, to exclude unimportant details)</li>
<li>No reliance on prior knowledge of how things fit together or of systems thinking</li>
<li>Task-based picture instruction to accomplish tasks while teaching systems thinking</li></ul>
<div>I'll dig up some others, but not having kids, I don't have a ready-made research lab ;-)</div><span class="sg">
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<div>--Bill</div>
</span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Todd Kelsey<br>630.808.6444