Saturday 30 November 2013

Spontaneous, Meaningful Writing

This evening I found an A5 sized card with a password I had written earlier in the
week, so the boys could independently access a game server, with extra print
upon it.

I was excited about the sudden physical evidence of the boys' writing, however I
was unclear as to whom had done the writing. It looked like T(10)'s hand, yet the
content is something I know K(7) has been working with.
I took the card to where the boys were busy, and stated that I wanted to be sure
I filed it correctly, and queried whose folder I should put it in. With a few
clarification questions from me in response to their answers, I determined the
following.

T(10) wished to be able to change the settings while engaged with Minecraft, and
finding the process of clicking menu, and then clicking through to the correct submenu
in order to do so, time consuming and laborious, he enquired of K(7) how
to do so while in game. K(7) knew how, yet struggled to articulate. The boys
developed the effective strategy of K(7) slowly typing the command, while T(10)
wrote it out on the card.

For the purpose of publishing on the internet, I cropped out the password for security reasons