星期二, 01/03/2012 - 12:25 — 朵朵妈
作为家长，作为家有爱玩游戏的孩子的家长，作为曾经因为玩游戏和高中的孩子吵得鸡飞狗跳的家长，听到游戏，难免肝颤。我，就是其中之一。
可是，现代科技的发展，已经远远地超出了我们的想象。ipad，itouch，iphon，不论走到哪，你都可以看见拿着苹果的产品在津津有味的玩着游戏的人。玩游戏的人，也已经不只是限于孩子。我们家奶奶，70多岁了，最近捧着ipad玩游戏，玩得可热乎了，有的时候，我们出去开party，奶奶都说，你们都是年轻人，我去了没意思，还是在家玩游戏吧。老公，有的时候玩起游戏，也是噼里啪啦的，真来劲啊。
游戏，已经成为视觉，色彩，智力，声音等多方面的综合产品，记得我们家老大因为高中时太爱玩游戏，把自己的英文AP class的research paper 写成“Game Is Art”，而且还被一个网站登出，被一个很有影响的青少年杂志 TEEN INK录用，多次被评为最受欢迎的文章，还得了200块钱的奖金，大大的震了我一下。
新年第二天，吃过早饭，老大说，他要去一个参加一个event，想带弟弟们去，其实就是航空博物馆（Hiller Aviation Museum）的一个新年party，他去的原因是，是他看到Airy Labs有一个展台在那里，他想去meet他们的CEO。
什么是Airy Labs？干什么的，我听得一头雾水，老大就给我娓娓道来：Airy Labs的founder是一个19岁的华裔青年，他12岁上大学，15岁大学毕业，后来进了stanford读博士，因为拿到了Spark的10万美元的资金，按照规矩，就退学，创业。他在Palo Alto创建了自己的公司，主要是在education方面的，给5到13岁的孩子设计游戏，开发孩子的智力。他们已经拿到了google 100万美元的资金。。。。。。
What？开发游戏？我刚一听时，心里挺震撼的，12岁上大学，15岁大学毕业，后来进了Stanford读博士，这不是一个天才吗？那么多领域，怎么就选中了游戏呢？不过，老练的我，也学会了不动声色，乖乖的号召着全家，浩浩荡荡的来到位于Hiller Aviation Museum，也想见识见识这位天才。
可惜，那天，我们去的时候，这位少年天才没在他们的展台，倒是看到他们的team，都是年轻人，在招呼着家长，孩子，看到很多孩子拿着ipad在玩他们的游戏，不亦乐乎，不亦乐乎。。。。。。
那天也见到了一位讲中文的工作人员，可惜他们都太忙，要不然，真想和她好好聊一聊，解解我心中的惑。
不过，也许，哪天，我们可以请到这位天才，好好给我们解解惑。
时代在飞速变化，我们，是不是也要与时共进？
这是Airy Labs 的推荐的7个免费的游戏：http://airylabs.com/blog/?page_id=269
有时间，也让家里两个小的试试。
老大刚send我了这个link，对这个这个天才孩子Andrew Hsu，有了更深刻的了解
At the age of 2, Andrew Hsu demonstrated his amazing attention span and problem-solving skills by assembling LEGO blocks into a robot as tall as he was. By age 5, he was already solving algebra problems. At the age of 6, Hsu scored off the charts on a standard IQ test.
At 10, he started to conduct molecular biology research at a pathology lab at the University of Washington. A year afterward, at 11, Andrew became the youngest person to ever win a grand prize at the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair. He was also the youngest finalist in the history of the Intel International Science Fair, the top worldwide high school science competition that brings together over 1500 young scientists annually.
At 12, he officially matriculated at the University of Washington. A year later, he completed the Advanced Calculus course, earning the highest grade in his class. At 16, he graduated with 3 Bachelor of Science degrees in Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Chemistry, along with a minor in Mathematics.
That same year, in 2007, Andrew entered the Neuroscience Ph.D. program at Stanford University, where he was a Smith Stanford Graduate Fellow. In 2009, he became a Ph.D. candidate in the program and a Frances B. Nelson Fellow.
Andrew has been swimming since age 5 and was a national ranked swimmer. He was the fastest butterfly swimmer in the west coast and ranked 4th in the US for 100 yard butterfly for age group 12 and under. That year, he stopped swimming competitively upon entering college. His records, some of which are more than ten years old, still stand.
In 2002, when Hsu was 11, he and his brother Patrick founded the World Children’s Organization (WCO, www.world-children.org). Its two founding pillars are health and education for the world’s underprivileged children. The foundation has since produced a series of 130 basic English story books for the beginning readers of the English language. It has donated over 5000 volumes of children’s books and benefited many children in China, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
More recently, the foundation has started a project on health, specifically on Hepatitis B vaccinations for elementary-age children in the more remote Western regions of China (http://www.andrewhsu.com/hepbpdf). It has raised more than $100,000 for vaccinations so far, and its goal is to vaccinate more than 100,000 schoolchildren.
Andrew has also appeared on NBC, ABC, CBS, Time magazine for kids, and the National Geographic magazine for kids. His story has been included in a 4th grade text book that was published by Macmillan in 2006 in the US.
http://www.andrewhsu.com/andrew/index.htm#tab1
作为家长，作为家有爱玩游戏的孩子的家长，作为曾经因为玩游戏和高中的孩子吵得鸡飞狗跳的家长，听到游戏，难免肝颤。我，就是其中之一。
可是，现代科技的发展，已经远远地超出了我们的想象。ipad，itouch，iphon，不论走到哪，你都可以看见拿着苹果的产品在津津有味的玩着游戏的人。玩游戏的人，也已经不只是限于孩子。我们家奶奶，70多岁了，最近捧着ipad玩游戏，玩得可热乎了，有的时候，我们出去开party，奶奶都说，你们都是年轻人，我去了没意思，还是在家玩游戏吧。老公，有的时候玩起游戏，也是噼里啪啦的，真来劲啊。
游戏，已经成为视觉，色彩，智力，声音等多方面的综合产品，记得我们家老大因为高中时太爱玩游戏，把自己的英文AP class的research paper 写成“Game Is Art”，而且还被一个网站登出，被一个很有影响的青少年杂志 TEEN INK录用，多次被评为最受欢迎的文章，还得了200块钱的奖金，大大的震了我一下。
新年第二天，吃过早饭，老大说，他要去一个参加一个event，想带弟弟们去，其实就是航空博物馆（Hiller Aviation Museum）的一个新年party，他去的原因是，是他看到Airy Labs有一个展台在那里，他想去meet他们的CEO。
什么是Airy Labs？干什么的，我听得一头雾水，老大就给我娓娓道来：Airy Labs的founder是一个19岁的华裔青年，他12岁上大学，15岁大学毕业，后来进了stanford读博士，因为拿到了Spark的10万美元的资金，按照规矩，就退学，创业。他在Palo Alto创建了自己的公司，主要是在education方面的，给5到13岁的孩子设计游戏，开发孩子的智力。他们已经拿到了google 100万美元的资金。。。。。。
What？开发游戏？我刚一听时，心里挺震撼的，12岁上大学，15岁大学毕业，后来进了Stanford读博士，这不是一个天才吗？那么多领域，怎么就选中了游戏呢？不过，老练的我，也学会了不动声色，乖乖的号召着全家，浩浩荡荡的来到位于Hiller Aviation Museum，也想见识见识这位天才。
可惜，那天，我们去的时候，这位少年天才没在他们的展台，倒是看到他们的team，都是年轻人，在招呼着家长，孩子，看到很多孩子拿着ipad在玩他们的游戏，不亦乐乎，不亦乐乎。。。。。。
那天也见到了一位讲中文的工作人员，可惜他们都太忙，要不然，真想和她好好聊一聊，解解我心中的惑。
不过，也许，哪天，我们可以请到这位天才，好好给我们解解惑。
时代在飞速变化，我们，是不是也要与时共进？
这是Airy Labs 的推荐的7个免费的游戏：http://airylabs.com/blog/?page_id=269
有时间，也让家里两个小的试试。
老大刚send我了这个link，对这个这个天才孩子Andrew Hsu，有了更深刻的了解
At the age of 2, Andrew Hsu demonstrated his amazing attention span and problem-solving skills by assembling LEGO blocks into a robot as tall as he was. By age 5, he was already solving algebra problems. At the age of 6, Hsu scored off the charts on a standard IQ test.
At 10, he started to conduct molecular biology research at a pathology lab at the University of Washington. A year afterward, at 11, Andrew became the youngest person to ever win a grand prize at the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair. He was also the youngest finalist in the history of the Intel International Science Fair, the top worldwide high school science competition that brings together over 1500 young scientists annually.
At 12, he officially matriculated at the University of Washington. A year later, he completed the Advanced Calculus course, earning the highest grade in his class. At 16, he graduated with 3 Bachelor of Science degrees in Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Chemistry, along with a minor in Mathematics.
That same year, in 2007, Andrew entered the Neuroscience Ph.D. program at Stanford University, where he was a Smith Stanford Graduate Fellow. In 2009, he became a Ph.D. candidate in the program and a Frances B. Nelson Fellow.
Andrew has been swimming since age 5 and was a national ranked swimmer. He was the fastest butterfly swimmer in the west coast and ranked 4th in the US for 100 yard butterfly for age group 12 and under. That year, he stopped swimming competitively upon entering college. His records, some of which are more than ten years old, still stand.
In 2002, when Hsu was 11, he and his brother Patrick founded the World Children’s Organization (WCO, www.world-children.org). Its two founding pillars are health and education for the world’s underprivileged children. The foundation has since produced a series of 130 basic English story books for the beginning readers of the English language. It has donated over 5000 volumes of children’s books and benefited many children in China, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
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More recently, the foundation has started a project on health, specifically on Hepatitis B vaccinations for elementary-age children in the more remote Western regions of China (http://www.andrewhsu.com/hepbpdf). It has raised more than $100,000 for vaccinations so far, and its goal is to vaccinate more than 100,000 schoolchildren.
Andrew has also appeared on NBC, ABC, CBS, Time magazine for kids, and the National Geographic magazine for kids. His story has been included in a 4th grade text book that was published by Macmillan in 2006 in the US.
http://www.andrewhsu.com/andrew/index.htm#tab1
