Word: asterisks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...might apply their "competence" drive to early reading if no one confused them with grown-up rules. "Built on curiosity," Moore's method is to let the child "control" his learning. As the child strikes typewriter keys, an instructor names the character printed. (One delighted child hit the asterisk key 75 times to test teacher's stamina.) Sitting beside his "student" in a gadget-filled booth, which has 60-odd switches to pique the child's curiosity, the instructor also projects the chosen letters on a screen. After each half-hour typing session, the child prints...