Teaching the very basic concepts (Score 1)

I don't know if it will help but when I was 10 I begged my parents to drop the piano lessons and put me in a computer class. They relented and on the first day the instructor came in with a piece of plywood that he had mounted 8 plain light switches in a row. Each switch controlled a corresponding light mounted below the switch. That is how he taught a room full of 9, 10, and 11 year old kids how electricity could be converted to ones and zeros and how ones and zeros could be converted to characters.