Children learn faster, remember more what they learned when they play and have fun and when they share the experience with other children. The challenge is how to get students to learn knowledge using games. The fun before a game makes the child's brain consider the activity as relevant and devotes more attention, and as there are rewards the brain adapts and learns from success and error or victory or failure. Also the game motivates them to practice and repeat and try again Even if it fails, games are a good vehicle for children's learning and to take advantage of this way of doing, we introduce you to Mecanografia.com, a unique online course to learn typing in a playful way, specially designed for children.
Typing It is a course for children that takes place completely through the Internet. It is estimated that the minimum estimated time to complete this course is 15 hours and during the course, students go on a treasure hunt with Captain Forty and learn typing during the trip. Each time they complete a series of exercises they progress in the treasure hunt.
Here you can see a video presentation of the course:
The course is divided into 30 lessons which include a theoretical explanation, followed by the necessary exercises for the student to practice and learn step by step. At any time you can access the explanations of the previous lessons. After performing the exercises, the student is offered the possibility of having fun with games that serve as a distraction, while, without realizing it, practice and improve the skills learned. With each lesson you discover part of a story, a thrilling pirate adventure that culminates in the discovery of a great treasure. While entertaining each of the adventure chapters, students can rest and relax. The story, narrated with voice and accompanied by images, is attractive to students and helps keep them motivated. The price of the full course is 74.95 eurosthat is, some five euros an hour.
At a time like the current one where the use of keyboard-based interfaces They are fundamental to progress in the work I think it is a very low cost for the performance that can be taken to develop this type of skills. I'm still surprised to see some children approach a keyboard putting index fingers on the keyboard in front of others who quickly put their hands on and progress by looking only at the screen and using as many fingers as possible.
