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Preschoolers and Computers Kacy Jacobs Educ3412 A4 March 9, 2005 Overview Effects of Computers on Pre-school Aged Children Explaining some of the aspects of computers used in the pre-school classroom Who is Involved? Children ages 2 through 5 Educators Parents Adult Mentors What is involved? Computers New skills for learning Where? Preschools Head Starts Early Elementary In the home When? In today’s technology-filled world On a daily basis, with the choice of students to pick their activities during “Activity Time” 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 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! 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? 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? 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. 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 Pros and Cons of Sources PROS Information came from university sources Variety of reputable sources Information was factual and unbiased CONS Information came