The second article I read was Computers and Young Children by Jan Lacina. After focusing on upper elementary for the last article, I wanted to look into young elementary grades for this one.
While I found this article to be an interesting read, I don't believe the author has conducted studies/experiments of her own. She has analyzed others studies' from the ninties to 2007. It would've been nice to have her reflect on more studies in the 2007 time frame than the 1994 one.
To sum up the article, children should be exposed to computers around the age of 3 or 4 - when they are developmentally ready. Children will benefit by having positive attitudes about learning, and advanced spoken language. Another study found that kindergartners and 1st-graders access to technolgy led to higher academic achievement.
The author includes several links to websites that these younger students could benefit from. Many of them are literacy site and relate back to my post on e-books. Are they really books if they're animated???
Hope everyone's enjoying their weekend! See you tomorrow!
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Interesting stuff.... kinda crazy to think that in today's world it's important to get kids using the computer as young as 3 and 4 years old, but I realize why it's true... so much is available through computers and the web we need to open these doors up as soon as possible. I don't know about you though but I don't think I used a computer until maybe 3rd grade and that was only in school probably once/ twice a week... it's crazy how fast technology moves!
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