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Click on Silly-Billy
(•|•) Sea Dolphins Teach!
Alphabet Lurning
Dolphins do the Teaching
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We have three dolphins teaching the alphabet and numbers:
Alpha-Betty, Silly Billy, and Big Daddy Dolphin. When your kid
moves the cursor over a key, the key underlights in a shade of
red, teaching your kid hand / eye coordination. Or use the keys
on your keyboard to activate our dolphins.
Click on a letter or number key, the dolphin's mouth opens,
three speech-bubbles come out, and the dolphin says the
selected letter or number. In the next level, the speech
bubbles come out on their own. The dolphin says the letter or
number either before, or after the kid player / user clicks on
the letter. The dolphin won't move to the next letter until the
player clicks on or types the correct letter.
For a two year old the 2nd level is a fun game. One half
hour a day and within the month your kid will have learned all
the letters in the alphabet. Click on the screen shot above to
see our dolphins teach! We have also added extra dolphin
features, a panoply of dolphin clicks and squeals to entertain
our early learners. Don't be shy. Give Alpha-Betty, Silly
Billy, and Big Daddy Dolphin a try!
Our Kids' KeyBoard enables very young kids to
begin learning the alphabet - the building blocks for life long
reading and writing skills. Your little one can explore the internet and even learn how to become a veterinary
technician.
Utilizing centuries old flash card
methods, back in the sixties, Dr. Omar K. Moore built a
'Talking Typewriter.' Ordinary kids were reading, on average,
at the 7th grade level by the 2nd grade!
Scroll down the page to find out how our founder, Michael
Stephen Levinson developed our talking dolphins from the
article he read about Dr. Moore in The Saturday Evening
Post, more than 40 years ago. | |
| Our Kid's Keyboard flagship was / is inspired by Dr. Omar
Khayyam Moore's inventively self-teaching - talking typewriter,
which originally cost $35,000 a copy in 1962-bucks. Moore's
advanced teaching method was sponsored by |
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a Carnegie Foundation grant. With purr
mission granted from The Saturday Evening Post we are
fully republishing the extraordinary November 20, 1965Saturday Evening Post article about Dr.
Omar K. Moore's innovative work!
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OMAR KHAYYAM AND
HIS TALKING TYPEWRITER
A miraculous machine
teaches two-year-olds to read, spell, punctuate and even
touch-type in less than a year.
By C.P. Gilmore
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Keith Ross, a friendly, vigorous four-year-old,
scrambled onto a chrome-tube highchair and stared quizically at
the odd-looking typewriter. The machine's keys, like the boy's
fingernails, had been painted a variety of bright colors. While
the boy looked nervously about him, the attendant on duty, a
20-year-old girl named Carol Peterson, told him to enjoy himself
and to raise his hands if he needed help. Then, |
with no further instructions, she left.
While Miss Peterson watched through a one-way glass, Keith extended a finger and gingerly touched the letter M. The machine typed the letter and at the same time, a tape-recorded voice lodged in its innards called out; "M". Keith's jaw dropped. He touched the M again; again the machine typed and spoke.
A tiny smile lit up Keith's face, a smile that good teachers have seen on inspired students' faces the world over, the smile students of all ages and subjects have experienced, brought on by truly understanding something! Whether in kindergarten or enrolled in online colleges, it is a satisfying feeling to fully grasp a new concept! This little boy, Keith was experiencing exactly that feeling. He rapped out a line of M's across a roll of paper. Then Keith began excitedly punching all the keys, always getting a response. "Oh, boy," he told Miss Peterson later, "am I having a good time!"
After slightly more than a week of daily 30-minute sessions,
Keith had taught himself the keyboard letters and symbols and
was even learning touch-typing by matching the different colors
on his fingernails with those on the typewriter keys. At this
point Miss Peterson adjusted a knob outside the booth. Now the
machine announced a letter and simultaneously popped up a card
with the letter on it before Keith struck a key. The boy
quickly discovered that all the keys were locked except the one
the machine was asking for. In a few days Keith learned to
match all the keys with their sounds and images.
Keith got his next surprise when three letters-- M-A-Y
--appeared on a card at the same time. After Keith typed the
letters, the machine paused and said M-A-Y, MAY. He typed a
torrent of words that day: may, day, pay, way. He had just
discovered that letters put together make words.
On his 16th day in the booth, Keith asked Miss Peterson to
spell his name. "What letter do you suppose Keith starts with?"
she said, accenting the initial sound heavily. Gradually,
letter by letter, she helped him work out the spelling for
himself. Keith advanced rapidly. By his third month, sentences
like "Go real fast" and "Stop with your brakes" began to appear
among the miscellaneous words, letters, and numbers. Three and
a half months after his first session with the typewriter,
Keith typed his first original story;
My super crane picks up dirt. It has three batteries and
a
control with two buttons. It is fun to play with.
Keith, a four-year-old of average intelligence had taught
himself to read, write, spell, punctuate, and touch-type. And
he had accomplished all this in less than half the time it
normally takes a first-grader to learn the same
skills.
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