Einstein Never Used Flash Cards...

aknchan

An interesting summary of why parents should not attempt to hurry intellectual development in kids.

Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn-- And Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less (Hardcover)
by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Diane Eyer, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

PS: I don't think I'll be very popular to post this up BUT I hope this can serve as an opposing argument to the current hype on 'early child' education.

Eclipse_2006

原文章由 aknchan 於 08-6-23 13:45 發表
An interesting summary of why parents should not attempt to hurry intellectual development in kids.

Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn-- And Why They Need to Play More and ...

carol_mom

Totally agree children should learn by playing and real object instead of flash card (visual memorization)
  唔知商務有無得買呢

原文章由 aknchan 於 08-6-23 13:45 發表
An interesting summary of why parents should not attempt to hurry intellectual development in kids.

Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn-- And Why They Need to Play More and ...

miumiu809

我也睇了中文版: http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010285010
p.s.: 不過, 個人看完之後依然覺得在大部份玩的時間中, 可以加入一點點教中文的字card.
因為我是美國媽媽, 暫時找不到比用字card教中文更好的方法

aknchan

You can use "中文字card" without flashing. There is nothing wrong.

People who uses flash card, show the cards to their babies at a high frequency to ensure the content is INPUT to the baby's right brain.

With ordinary use of "中文字card", you show them to your baby just like any book or picture. You are NOT trying to do any INPUT.

Infact, I do believe the flash card thing works.
But this is precisely why these technique can be dangerous because they give you a false impression of what the baby can do.

Reading is WAY MORE THAN knowing the words. Way more.

aknchan

原文章由 awah112 於 08-6-27 18:38 發表
請教下除咗flash card，仲有冇其他方法開法右腦？

I'm afraid you posted the question in the wrong thread because I don't buy training a certain 'half' of the brain.

This book DOES NOT propose something BETTER to train the 'right' brain other than flash card.

Infact, it claims that the 'left/right brain' theory is dated, over simplified, and exagerated by marketing company to sell stuff.
Many experiments have indicate that both left and right brain works TOGETHER to perform a lot of task.

aknchan

原文章由 awah112 於 08-6-30 11:57 發表


我知妳唔相信flash card，我都冇用flash card。我大仔3歲，除咗閱讀，妳用乜新方法教妳個仔/女？妳個仔/女幾歲？

I don't have any "新方法".
My kid is the same age as yours, and we do all the usual stuff like reading, painting, games, talk, etc.

I just want to present a different perspective, for parents who worried that their kid will be 'left behind' if they don't do so and so when their baby is still young ...

Nic_ma

兒子2.5歲時，我認為他開始可以坐定才玩中文字咭，之前我也有看過一點flash card理論；但實際上我玩字咭時，我不會好像書中所教般「閃」（因我prefer人手而不是用電腦），我也會選擇一些bb喜歡和已理解的詞語去教，所以我肯定bb不是只知其形而不知其義；我發覺bb不但非常喜歡玩，在街上看到學過的字也會開心的指出和讀出。教了兩個月，我開始進入所謂的「閱讀」階段，以bb學過的字做自製書仔，bb也十分投入和喜歡呢！

[ 本文章最後由 Nic_ma 於 08-6-30 16:56 編輯 ]

aknchan

原文章由 ha8mo 於 08-7-2 12:28 發表
我好相信接要觸實物而唔係睇咭
可惜我老婆唔信
早兩日仲要去訂果套乜鬼Your 悲B can read DVD
唉~~

Elefant老婆

咁你都唔可能日日去動物園睇動物㗎。
最好兩樣都做，
屋企做Flashcards，
有機會去動物園睇動物咪當Practical，
咁佢就可以睇到原來大象真的很Big！
去超市又可睇下蔬果類。

原文章由 ha8mo 於 2/7/2008 12:28 發表
我好相信接要觸實物而唔係睇咭
可惜我老婆唔信
早兩日仲要去訂果套乜鬼Your 悲B can read DVD
唉~~

Elefant老婆

我唔係一個有計劃嘅人，如果我唔係照住Glenn Doman嘅方法教BB，我估我可能錯過咗BB成長嘅時間而俾佢睇太多電視，或做太多唔知乜野，依家我至少keep住佢真係每日有時間係去睇字，至於你講嘅paintng, games, talk，我地都有做，因為唔係太難，我都贊成應該乜都做先有均衡發展。

原文章由 aknchan 於 30/6/2008 15:18 發表


I don't have any "新方法".
My kid is the same age as yours, and we do all the usual stuff like reading, painting, games, talk, etc.

I just want to present a different perspective, for parents who w ...

aknchan

用唔用 信唔信 flash card, Glenn Doman, ... 好睇個人

用咗有效 不要太興奮
用咗冇效 不要太灰心
冇用過 不要內咎 以為自己冇盡責

BBR

我覺得真係要睇媽咪有無心機教,好多媽咪淨比VCD/DVD佢地睇係無用,你一定要自己教,我每日早上都用成兩個鐘同佢讀書 ,到佢剛讀K2時(4歲)已經識+-數背X數表,串4百幾個英文字,中文字就識寫30幾個,現在重有3個月5歲已經可以自己睇同讀story book,作句子,做1年班的作業,其實中文字對小朋友好難認,初初比D好簡單佢認同寫,宜家佢已經識寫超過百五個中文字,好難佢都識,例如圖書,畫,樹,多謝,突然,點,腳,狗,積木,蕭,海洋,飯,飲......我宜家要佢作句子寫出黎, 重有最好就係要佢讀故事書,我每日都會要佢讀一段,唔識D字就教佢讀,可以訓練佢口齒伶俐D,我希望趁佢幼稚園唔太多野做時可以教定佢多D野,因為現在教可以慢慢教,唔識可以慢慢黎,一升P1就無時間同佢慢慢黎,希望佢讀小學時就唔駛太辛苦,好彩佢都鐘意讀書,不過有時都會 ,英文就易D,初時會同佢用手指做個英文宇出黎串,現在已經可以自己串,佢現在已經可以串到8百幾個英文字,其實我覺得無咩正統的方法,係你個小朋友接受咩教法,因為個個小朋友性格都唔同,能接受的事物亦有所不同,我就喜歡早上同佢溫書,因為佢個段時間最精神,放學後我就比佢自己玩,星期六日就會同去周圍去行街同玩等佢開心下

Radiomama

兩年前杜曼的書在書店的角落有售，介紹flash card的理綸，當時小兒1歲，我隨手買了那書來看，才不過一佰多元，之後也買了一set flash card (按他介紹的尺寸)與仔仔玩，不過實在好沉悶，3個月後那set card放埋一邊，沒有再移動。
今天要幾千元買書、dvd etc，實在好驚人!  錢要花得其所，培育小朋友要慢慢得其法。
同意樓主的看法，家長要冷靜，萬勿變為hyper-parenting!

aknchan

原文章由 BBR 於 08-7-18 10:26 發表
...到佢剛讀K2時(4歲)已經識+-數背X數表,串4百幾個英文字,中文字就識寫30幾個,現在重有3個月5歲已經可以自己睇同讀story book,作句子,做1年班的作業 ...我希望趁佢幼稚園唔太多野做時可以教定佢多D野,因為現在教可以慢慢教,唔識可以慢慢黎,一升P1就無時間同佢慢慢黎,希望佢讀小學時就唔駛太辛苦,好彩佢都鐘意讀書,不過有時都會 ...

Have you every wonder whether your kid is feeling the pressure? I believe the crying is a tell tale sign.

The books uses "FLASH CARD" merely as ONE example on how today's parents are hurrying their kids at every stage, but it doesn't stop there.
The books ask the reader to re-think a lot of questions:

  Why do we always want our kid to do "advance" stuff, like to master P1 material while still in K2/K3?
  Why do we insists on giving them "the edge" and making sure they are "ahead of schedule" ?

As reneeleung has pointed out, the book talks about a lot of other things as well.