What does the Digital Scrapbook have to offer to our children? Is it really important? Put most directly, what does the Digital Scrapbook have to teach? Join me on a brief excursion.
First, the Digital Scrapbook teaches children to exercise the most exquisite of capacities; the ability to make judgments in the absence of rules. There is so much in school that emphasises fealty to rules. The rules that the Digital Scrapbook obeys are located in our children's emotional interior; children come to feel a rightness of fit among the qualities with which they work. There is no rule book to provide recipes or algorithms to calculate conclusions. They must exercise judgment by looking inside themselves.
A second lesson the Digital Scrapbook teaches children is that problems can have more than one solution. This too is at odds with the use in our schools of multiple choice tests in which there are no multiple correct answers. The tacit lesson is that there is, almost always, a single correct answer. It's seldom that way in life.
A third lesson is that aims can be held flexibly; in the Digital Scrapbook the goal one starts with can be changed midway in the process as unexpected opportunities arrive. Flexibility yields opportunities for surprise. "Creative creation loves chance. Creative thinking abhors routine."
The Digital Scrapbook also teaches that neither words nor numbers define the limits of our cognition; we know more than we can tell. There are many experiences and a multitude of occasions in which we need graphics and art forms to say what literal language cannot say. The Digital Scrapbook can provide forms of communication that convey to others what is ineffable.
Finally, the digital scrapbook is about joy. They are about the experience of being moved, of having one's life enriched, of discovering our capacity to feel. KIDZ-ONLINE Digital Scrapbooks for Children Using Their Computers, make creating a scrapbook a fun activity that can be enjoyed with friends and family. Great fun for kids of all ages and even for the child within the adult! The Ultimate Scrapbook Creator guides you through the process of creating imaginative, colourful, personalised scrapbooks in print or online...and it's so easy! Why waste time working on your family scrapbook with scissors and glue when you can "cut and paste" it together with your PC? KIDZ-ONLINE Digital Scrapbook offers a variety of user-friendly features that will help you create an eye-catching project album! |