Kids that age see outside of boxes because they haven't experienced enough to have a box develop in the first place. To them the world is one big curiosity. Frankly us old geezers would be a lot happier if we could keep that same sense of adventure and exploration.
Just my opinion but at those ages, the lack of reading skills is going to hurt any serious instruction unless they start teaching kids to read a lot earlier than I started. Without that what basic skill, the camera becomes a high tech version of finger painting or crayons. That's not to say its bad or not something that shouldn't be done, but I really wouldn't call it photography instruction either. It's not unique to this situation either. Many music teachers will not start a music student till they can read.
Now something came to me. Didn't someone just come out with a digital disposable????
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Subject: Re: Point & shoot cameras
From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, May 24, 2009 5:14 am
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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For kids that young I would go disposables. At that age kids are in
a great position to be learning to see imaginatively.
Cameras are toys at this point to the large majority of users. Few
are the 7-year olds who are interested in taking a toy and figuring
out how to make it work technically. But they're also still able to
see outside boxes, too. And that's what I'd concentrate on with that
age group.
Tesco probably has a photo department which can process the film in a
couple hours, prints are vastly more exciting for sharing, putting up
on the cork board, and showing mom and dad, and you can get CDs with
the scans when you get the film processed.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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