To all:
Please quit associating what we do with just BOOKS, even to the young! We
do much more! Kindergartners are already internet savvy or at least have
some computer knowledge. We must begin to educate this generation since we
are having such a difficult time with the current one.
You could present an information request as a treasure hunt. Describing
each of formats we might use to find that treasure - finding clues etc....
Kids who have visited their local public libraries see and use computers
there. Hopefully, they also have a computer in the class room and/or a
computer lab at their school, perhaps even at home. My daughter's school
has just been wired for internet access and they are beginning to use the
computer there. She had a computer in her kindergarten class where they
played educational games to learn the alphabet, spelling and math.
Bring old CD-ROM disks and explain to them that an entire encyclopedia is
contained on one little disk. Pass them around, let them keep one. Kids
love something they can touch. Bring a palm-pilot, cell phone, beeper to
let them know we are connected to our firms and the information highway.
Use a laptop or power point demo. Do ANYTHING to show them that the arena
in which we work is a very cool place to be.
Just my two cents. . .
Cindy Beck Weller
Cooper, White & Cooper LLP
201 California Street, 16th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-765-6269
cweller@cwclaw.com
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