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Fabian Toulose wrote in ezinearticles.com the following:
Some people find it appalling that parents would allow their toddlers to play computer games, but as the old adage goes, there is no fighting progress. The computer is here to stay. However, if a young child is going to be on a computer, he or she should be at least engaged in something educational. The software industry for the under 5 set is a huge industry, and there are toddler learning games on the market for babies as young as six months. While the computer should never function as a baby sitter, toddler learning games such as Jump Start Baby can give little ones a real head start in life
As research shows, the time between nine months and three years of age is a critical period of brain development. The wider a child’s knowledge base, the more developed his mind will be. Proponents of toddler learning games argue that computer time can really help expand a child’s knowledge base. The toddler years matter like no others.
In addition to developing the full potential of a child’s mind, toddler learning games can go a long way towards preparing him for preschool or kindergarten. What schools expect from today’s five year olds was unheard of previous decades. Most adults remember their kindergarten years as a warm and fuzzy time when you learned colors, the alphabet, and maybe a little simple addition. Today, well written and correctly punctuated sentences are expected in some kindergarten classrooms. Children are pushed to excel earlier and earlier. Instead of pushing, why not give your child a head start with fun toddler learning games?
Certainly, no one is advocating that young children sit in front of a computer ad infinitum, but the use of a few well chosen toddler learning games can yield great leaps in learning. Why not teach children early how much fun learning can be?
I have written some article like the one he did in said website. It’s true that computer-aided learning especially among toddlers is very helpful. It increases the child’s ability to reason out, develops various locomotor skills like timing and stimulates his brain to develop strategies at an early age. However, with the advent of war games, the child is feared to develop erratic behavior as some research has shown in the past. In what way therefore can we control this possibility if we see our children getting hooked on computer games?
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2 Responses so far to "Computer Games vs. Learning"
August 19th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I don’t have a kid but if I did I would intro duce the kid to video games as soon as I could.
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August 21st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
That’s good.
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