Hello. My name is Thom Gillespie. I write for a magazine

Diego Gomez Deck DiegoGomezDeck
Fri Apr 18 14:54:03 PDT 2003


Hello...

I'm not a teacher, but a father...

My son of 4 years old use the computer more time than I like... He learned to read/write with the computer at the age of 2 1/2... The problem I see today is the large ammount of information he can access, the information by itself (in large ammounts) is not so good... We need tools to clasify and process the information... I think that one of the goal for the next years is to "protect" childrens from the over-information (not too many years ago, when you searched for "holocaust" in internet you found more nazy pages than others)...

My 2 cents,

Diego Gomez Deck

>Thom,
>
>  You must not have kids of your own. Has literacy changed? No, but the
>tools have. 6 years ago my son was in elementary school creating his
>book reports on word processors, using electronic encyclopedia's and the
>web as resources for research projects. What kids have learned is that
>they can learn just about anything on their own! And to that degree, I
>believe that to keep up with them, we need to consider instructional
>methodologies that incorporate constructivist learning theory, case base
>learning, the Internet and computing as much as possible. Even my son
>"the artist" has moved to using tools such as Adobe Illustrator and
>digital cameras. Educators need to continue to tap the natural interests
>and instincts of the students. These kids are technology savvy far
>beyond most of their instructors and parents. We need to teach
>instructors and parents not to be intimidated by the technical
>competence of these students. We should encourage them to become masters
>of the information!
>
>--Barbara Jennings
>  Doctoral Student University of New Mexico
>  Organizational Learning and Instructional Technology Program




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