the preference for visually presented information.

bias for visually presented information.

The developing child requires the right combination of these experiences at the right times during development in order to develop optimally.

The technologies that benefit young children the greatest are those that are interactive and allow the child to develop their curiosity, problem solving and independent thinking skills.

Children are natural "manipulators" of the world

With television, they watch and do not control anything

cameras and tape recorders and video cameras in the classroom

children think differently than adults

What's important is when experience is provided and how it's mixed in with other crucial experiences.

Parents and teachers must act as facilitators in children's learning.

parents and teachers can take advantage of the interactive qualities of a computer to enhance the experiences available to children.

our task is to balance appropriate skill-development with technologies with the core principles and experiences necessary to raise healthy children

he key to making technologies healthy is to make sure that we use them to enhance or even expand our social interactions and our view of the world as opposed to using them to isolate and create an artificial world

as with all other tools, adults must protect children from misuse or inappropriate access.

struggle with

ontrolling access to content that may not be developmentally appropriate.

ccess to information that is developmentally appropriate is something that we need to be very concerned about

may think that buildings are blowing up all over the place and many planes crashed — rather than understanding that these multiple stories are actually from single events

word processor and they can hand in papers that are clean and neat and they can see how to spell words correctly

put them on a

simplest level,

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heir handwriting is very immature and very slow and looks sloppy