{"id":194,"date":"2011-09-28T18:31:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T18:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-09-28T18:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T18:32:37","slug":"cool-example-of-spontaneous-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Cool Example of Spontaneous Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A first grade girl showed me a computer she had made out of paper yesterday.\u00a0 I am trying to keep an eye out for examples of spontaneous engineering that young children engage in.\u00a0 I asked her if I could copy her computer.\u00a0 The computer consisted of a large sheet of paper folded in half just like a laptop folds with a keyboard on the bottom and the screen on top.<\/p>\n<p>I heard that this girl was looking for me today so when I went to see her, she gave me her second computer that she specifically made for me last night!\u00a0 I was very happy and gave her a hug.\u00a0 It is interesting to me how children really love it when we really notice the cool things they are doing.\u00a0 The model she made for me (see below) appears to be more of a copy of an iBook than her first model, which did not have a QWERTY keyboard.\u00a0 This one was very accurate. (Note that the screen is not completely scanned in.)\u00a0 I am very interested in these examples of kid engineering and how they are encouraged or discouraged over time by teachers and other adults.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TalyaComputer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-195\" title=\"Kid Model Computer Made of Paper \" src=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TalyaComputer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TalyaComputer.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TalyaComputer-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first grade girl showed me a computer she had made out of paper yesterday.\u00a0 I am trying to keep an eye out for examples of spontaneous engineering that young children engage in.\u00a0 I asked her if I could copy &hellip; 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