What are the benefits and drawbacks of children's computer use in the preschool and early school years?

What will be an ideal response?


As long as adults scaffold children's efforts, well-designed literacy and math apps expand children's general knowledge and enhance diverse language, literacy, and math skills, and their interactivity heightens attention and interest. Tablet-based ebooks are also effective at improving a range of literacy outcomes. And kindergartners who use apps to draw or write produce more elaborate pictures and text, make fewer writing errors, and edit their work much as older children do. Still, in several studies, shared reading of a paper book led to higher-quality parent-child conversation than did shared reading of an ebook. The ebook format resulted in more interaction about the mechanics of using the tablet than about story content, thereby reducing recall of story details. Ebooks that are enhanced with too many features, such as animation, music, and hotspots to tap, can also divert children from the text and hinder learning.

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