I’ve been teaching Ellie about deconstructionism.

Or maybe it is better called destructionism. I needed to dispose of a very old laptop from work, but before taking it to the recycling place, I wanted to get the hard drive out, and… got carried away. I asked Ellie if she wanted to help take it apart and we just kept going.  Before I got the tools out to destroy it, I found Ellie jumping on the screen while Adelaine was banging on the keyboard. Pent up computer angst already?

She was so impressed with this stuff she wanted to take a bunch of it to show-and-tell at kindergarten the next day. So I sent her along with a bag full of parts, including the computer’s fans that could be connected to a 9v battery, the keyboard, ram chips, the spinning motor from the DVD, and a bunch of other parts.