[olpc-nz] Memorize and value...

[Nevyn]

Yesterday after the testing session I was talking to a friend of mine
who's a teacher. He was saying that the OLPC would save him loads of
time in the classroom. Making up cards and that sort of thing. He was
thinking about the memorize activity in particular.

Anyway, that got me to thinking. How is the activity different from
doing it physically? And then it struck me. There's value in the kids
verifying the answers themselves.

Yesterday none of us were all that in to it. We were distracted and so
even when a match was found, one of our number didn't even notice.
Should the activity therefore have some sort of verification system?
i.e. when you're playing you have say... 5 seconds to click a button
implying that you believe the pair of cards turned over to be a match?
Does that then lead to there being some sort of penalty for getting it
wrong?

It starts putting in some sort of indication of understanding it
rather than just randomly clicking on cards looking for the computer
to tell us that we're right.

What do others think?

Regards,
Nevyn.