Advances in Technology-based Education: towards a Knowledge Based Society
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During the past decade, the world is becoming more and more an information driven society. Information and communication technologies represent a large fraction of the economy and are being used almost everywhere. Sometimes there is a tendency for thinking that technology can cause harm to kids when used and abused from very early ages. However, if properly used, technology can help children to learn concepts in a more natural (and more fun) way, something that Seymour Papert has called home-style learning. Our investigation explores preliminary experiments to be conducted with pre-primary kids with ages ranging from three to five years old. We give special attention to the Logo software invented by Seymour Papert. Logo provides an environment which is suitable for exploring new worlds. Influenced by his work with Jean Piaget, Papert designed Logo with children in mind and with the philosophy that people (and children in particular) learn best when they can experiment and learn from their own mistakes. There has been some studies on the utilization of information technologies by primary school children, but there has been very few with pre-primary children. Our study addresses a number of questions: (1) Can very young children learn to give directions to the Logo turtle? (2) What type of drawings do they try to implement? (3) Do they draw abstract worlds or try to represent the real world? (4) Can they apprehend simple arithmetic concepts more easily with Logo, and (5) Do they have fun using Logo?
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