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At what age should technology be introduced to children?
I am a parent of 2 little girls and I started finding and using free
content on the Internet about 2 years ago, when the eldest was then 2 yrs. Of course, this was in a mediated format were my wife or myself came between the content and our children. I then posted a message to a mailing list that helped to result in a month long discussion that is now the subject of an article in Young Children, the journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. From these discussions it became clear that the 'educational establishment' is divided on the issue as I know many parents are. I think that most parents would agree that at some point in the educational process technology must be introduced to our children as this will be critical to their future working and studying needs, The questions I find unanswered are the 'When' "How' or even 'If'. To answer these questions I have combined with some technologists to found a worldwide Internet based research project, that now has the support of the National School Boards Association in the USA and a program administered by a Faculty of Education at a UK University. The project takes the form of a free play or assigned play for young children, were they can use 1,000s of items of content and qualified academic researchers can in a quantitive way understand the effectiveness of the content. I ask parents for their opinions on this, I believe, fundamental question of introducing technology to children. If they wish to be involved in the research project with their children they can write to me or go directly to the site at www.kindersite.org Joel |
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