By Scott Somerville Scott Somerville is a lawyer who defends homeschoolers' rights. Once your child is telecomputing, he or she has access to a limitless world of ideas and people, without stepping outside your home. Then read on. By Doing People ask me how home-schooled children can learn about computers if their parents don't know anything about the subject.
Kids learn to skateboard by getting a skateboard and hanging out on the street.
All a child needs to learn to master a computer is to get access to a computer and to somebody who knows what to do with one. The surprising fact is that the computer itself can provide access to the people who know computers. Somewhere in your neighborhood there is probably a computer whiz who spends most of his time talking to machines but who would love to spend some time talking to people like you or your children. This person may already be in your local support group. I am such a person.