Preschoolers and Computers

Kacy JacobsEduc3412 A4

March 9, 2005

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Overview Effects of Computers on Pre-school

Aged Children Explaining some of the aspects of

computers used in the pre-school classroom

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Who is Involved? Children ages 2 through 5 Educators Parents Adult Mentors

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What is involved?

Computers New skills for

learning

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Where?

Preschools Head Starts Early Elementary In the home

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When?

In today’s technology-filled world On a daily basis, with the choice of

students to pick their activities during “Activity Time”

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How Do Children Learn With Computers? Drills and Practice: reinforce already-learned material Tutorial Exercises: learn new material Simulation Programs: problem solving Word Processing: associating words and pictures

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WOW! Kids as young as two years old know a

computer as well as their toy box! Autistic children as young as two years

of age can maneuver computers better than I can!

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Follow-up Questions How do children pay

attention to computers long enough to learn anything?

How do preschoolers use a keyboard not knowing what all the symbols mean?

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More Follow-up Questions How long have computers been

available to preschoolers? Can young children spend too much

time on computers? How much is too much?

Do preschoolers lose valuable social skills by spending time alone on the computer?

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Answers to Follow-up Questions Computers began being

available to young children approximately 15 years ago!

Although children have short attention spans, they get immediate results with computers which acts as a reward to them.

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For Your Information Technology as one can see, helps

children develop skills they would otherwise not learn until later in life

Based on the success of computers in young children’s classrooms, computer use will eventually spread to all pre-school age classrooms, given sufficient funding

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Pros and Cons of SourcesPROS

Information came from university sources

Variety of reputable sources

Information was factual and unbiased

CONS Information came

from books, not from internet sources (this is about computer use)

Source had outdated resources

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REFERENCES

www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent/380/webproj/cms.html

http://www.vesid.nysed.gov/lsn/images/computer.gif

http://www.kcls.org/foundation/imagesbrochure/computers.jpg