DIGITAL It's educational computing time again - supposedly the reason why, according to the adverts, you had to buy a computer for your children in the first place. I know there are a few good packages out there, but it's the pointless ones that proliferate. Take Tell the Time from Duckworth Educational Computing, for example. Who is it aimed at? Do you really need a computer to teach young children to tell the time? Let's not be too unfair to Duckworth, though. The various programs cover analogue and digital displays, plus the 24 hour clock using methods - “designed by Psychologists”. And for once, the packages go for a half-way reasonable price. But if a program can't make significant advances over a well designed book, one feels compelled to ask fundamental questions about the point of it. PCW
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