Diana Park

Every "teach your kids to code" resource assumes your kid can read. Mine's 3. So I wrote a computational thinking curriculum for pre- and early readers. Unplugged activities, real CS concepts. 12 weeks of building real things together! buildwithyourkid.com

@Jingg_n_Tonic @interaction Easy integration too, here's how I set up mine. Yw!poke.com/r/LOWGq16cqTg

@madebydia @interaction OMG i see so you basically have a database. wow that might be the key and todoist has a nice API. thanks!!

Poke on Apple Watch is the tamagotchi I was promised

@Jingg_n_Tonic @interaction Oh and the nuclear option, delete the account and sign up again!

@madebydia @interaction love. i wish poke worked for me but half the time my daily brief doesn't fire and generally has poor task recall. how have you gotten it to be reliable?

@kennygay @MuteDialog Some months by now, half a year maybe? The pen is basically a Lamy rollerball, I like how it writes. The sync to the iOS app can lag sometimes, but that's not an issue for the way I use it (collecting thoughts asynchronously).

@madebydia @MuteDialog Amazon reviews have me nervous to pull the trigger on the Inq and looking at alternatives. How long have you had yours? Any issues?

Made a cute animals reminder recipe! poke.com/r/Ho0i_86dsY4

@MuteDialog I do mean actual paper! The digital pen writes on real paper, and of course you could take a pic of your writing on a regular notebook for AI to transcribe, I've done that too.

@madebydia Interesting concept. Though before I read your long post I thought perhaps you really meant actual paper, and that seems even nicer. * An AI paper print out 3 times a day. * You write on it then photograph it and upload it once.

Severely underestimated the complexity of a Lego build 30min before bedtime, absolute disaster

@jessegenet @JuliaSourdough Something something violence yadda yadda

@JuliaSourdough wait, wut. whats wrong with red rover?

I'm proud to have taught many children how to play "Red Rover" precisely because it's not allowed anywhere anymore 😭🤯

My son's had screens since we started watching phonics videos when he was a little more than one year old. He's used the Mentava app on iPad for the last year or so to learn how to put sounds together as words. He's 3 now and he can read. The flip side, he would watch a lot of YouTube videos, mostly kids stuff like Helper Cars or Super Simple Songs. We recently cut all screens except for Mentava and Khan Academy Kids on the iPad, and I can tell it's been better for his brain. I regret not limiting screens earlier, but I'm ecstatic that he can read a book by himself before four years of age. So I wouldn't go zero screens, and I would relish screenless activities as often as possible (plug: buildwithyourkid.com). But many seem to have this belief that you can't try it and pull back later, and I'm not sure that's true.

@jamwt well said, i agree

i'm battling a serious dilemma, help my daughter will be 3 yrs old in september. she doesn't use screens at all in any way shape or form. she is completely fine without them. she has a super happy childhood and a WILD imagination. loves playing outside, loves playing on her own, loves books (both when we read to her and she likes flipping them on her own) her vocabulary is super developed and we have conversations about things. my dilemma is about screens tho computers and tv were my childhood. even tho it was wrong, unlimited, and we saw things that were not appropriate for our age. i'm dying to show her cartoons, concerts, music videos, making music, creating art, sports, nature documentaries and computer games. i'm like, if she doesn't see this on a screen where tf will she see MOST things? we take her to museums, theatre plays, she traveled like 11 countries so far, she plays with kids etc etc but when we were kids we learned MOST things (including learning languages) from the tv being on 24/7 (which we don't do now obviosuly) i am very aware of what modern cartoons/movies can do, so i would def start oldschool and very slow and very limited. i'm planning to get old crt tv with vhs/dvd and have a very small collection on rotation, instead of sitting in front of a 138" screen to watch pokemon in HDR lol also we would start with super oldschool retrto nintendo games i just knows screens+vr+ar+ai (whatever tf this combo gonna look like) will be literally her entire life, so i'm really not sure if it's better to: 1. let her enjoy a screenless childhood as long as possible 2. slowly start preparing her and showing her how computers can be used as creative tools, and see how her creativity just to be clear again, i'm not talking about giving her her own device, that's not even crossing my mind. i'm talking about supervised time using a device TOGETHER as an educational/entertainment tool

@marvinvonhagen @interaction Poke personality is unmatched

@madebydia @interaction great idea

I asked poke @interaction to send me image reminders instead of boring text

@aminick_z @interaction Huge quality of life improvement

@madebydia @interaction 🤣 Smart!

@samyok @interaction You can have it too samyok poke.com/r/sOOoOUrdxdc

@madebydia @interaction this is so cuteeee

@ianchoe Inexplicable

@madebydia 'but i want those ones' 😂🙃🫠

Just lost half an hour of my life attempting to explain to my 3yo that the popsicle sticks neatly wrapped up in the new packaging are exactly the same as the ones he's already unwrapped and he can use the opened ones first...

If you haven't joined @interaction yet because you use Fastmail, I made you a recipe so Poke can help you too! poke.com/r/YAZ4wXY7fVk

90% of good homeschooling is noticing your kid's interests and providing the environment that nudges them towards creation instead of consumption