Re:Why dumb toys make kids smarter
by aw3c2 on Monday October 05, 2009 @08:39AM
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Meh, I thought this would be about toys like Lego. The ultimate dumb toy that makes smart. I mean dumb in a sense that the normal lego stones(?) are simple things but with imagination you can build anything with them.
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Just because it hasn't got a microcontroller in it doesn't make it dumb, IMHO.
It's hard with my limited language skills.
I rather meant the roughness. For example the older modular lego sets where you had lots of similar bricks (=dumb). Not complex parts (= not dumb). Like a clay brick versus a door. Ok, that's a bad analogy but it might give a better idea.
Maybe I just have the wrong thing in my mind for the word "dumb" though, I am not sure.