My impression was she just brings the typewriters into class as a one-day novelty thing per course, not that it becomes the norm for the whole semester. The goal is to give the students a taste of what the old-fashioned way is like, to get them thinking about it.

I tried this for my toddler but unfortunately it fooled me more often than it fooled him.

An example of a pawprint manuscript:

https://art.thewalters.org/object/W.305/

awesome, thank you! i'm not surprised there are more of these. i may be a little surprised i don't see them more often ;)

If you believe this, people believe everything they read by default and have to apply a critical thinking filter on top of it to not believe the thing.

I know I don't have as much of a filter as I ought to!

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/pmHZDpak4NeRLLLCw/p/TiDGXt3WrQwt...

That checks out with my experience. I don't think it's just reading either. Even deeper than stranger danger, we're inclined to assume other humans communicating with us are part of our tribe, on our side, and not trying to deceive us. Deception, and our defenses against deception, are a secondary phenomenon. It's the same reason that jokes like "the word 'gullible' is written in the ceiling", gesturing to wipe your face at someone with a clean face, etc, all work by default.

German

I am starting out on one of the non-RPG beginner-friendly programs but I'm looking forward to giving Spellbound a try!

My 5yo did great on these until he hit #7 and got stuck! I’m helping him with syntax but trying to hold back from giving conceptual hints for now.

I love the instant visual feedback!

I like it! I came back today after making a story yesterday and it had not saved my language.

Also, I’m using it in the phone and don’t see a way to get the translation of just one word since I can’t hover.

Wow great to hear! There is translation for only some words not all though. We’ll try to make language alignment happen.

Another feature I would love would be the ability to get a printable version so I can hand it to my kids. With that it would be great to have an option for a line-by-line translation (maybe side by side so they could cover half the page to hide it) and then another option without a full translation but with a little dictionary at the bottom so they can look up unknown words.

And my preference in general would be for a more literal, word-for-word translation so I can learn what each individual word means.

I had a really good time with my 8yo just now, reading a story about him and his baby brother.

You've made my day. I will have a look at this!

I find myself doing some of my most creative thinking in the middle of the night when I wake up and can’t get back to sleep.