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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. 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. |
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| 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, 1965 Saturday
Evening Post article about Dr. Omar K. Moore's
innovative work!
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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 crept across his
face. He rapped out a line of M's across a roll of paper.
Then he 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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