A Principal Cognitive Precondition of Successful Child- Computer Interactions in the Information Society

A hypothesis about what is the principal cognitive precondition of successful systematic acquainting children with computers is put forward. For this, the notion of the Thought-Producing Self of the child is introduced. It is stated that the System of Emotional-Imaginative Teaching (EIT-system) based on the Theory of Dynamic Conceptual Mappings allows for realizing the Thought-Producing Self of each normal child between the ages of seven and nine. The EIT-system has been successfully implemented in Moscow at lessons of foreign languages (English and German for Russian children), literature and poetry in three languages: Russian, English, and German, communication culture, and the symbolic language of painting. The elaborated and well-tested syllabus covers eleven years of the continuing lessons of the kind. The total number of students taught in accordance with the EIT-system exceeds three hundred fifty, the age varies from four-and-half to nineteen. It is stated that the EIT-system also allows for introducing young children at the age of five and more into the complicated world of social relations (on the example of fairy-tales) in order to make easier their social adaptation. The idea of constructing new computer games (developing in young children the love to nature) is set forth.