Friday, September 24, 2010

Positive & Negative Outcomes of Technology in Our Preschool Setting

Positive Outcome
  • Children become IT savvy.
  • Children learn language, maths and science etc. (with voice guided on the programme).
  • Interaction with teachers or parents (for parents and child activities) to promote scaffolding.
  • Gain information (relevant: topics / subjects).
  • exposure to another/ alternative environment or culture or way of life
  • gain more information second-hand
  • able to "travel" to other countries or even space

Negative Outcome
  • Unsupervised children may abuse it.
  • Hogging on the pc for long hours.
  • Causes myopia (short-sightedness).
  • Not maintaining the pc regularly cause pc to breakdown.
  • open more to virus attacks etc
  • Children fighting over it.
  • unscrumpulous netizens exploiting children through a variety of ways such as social grooming
  • unduly absorb onto the computer till it controls the child and not vice versa
  • child become anti-social
  • no interaction with peers(face to face)
  • too absorb in fantasy
  • unable to differentiate between reality and fantasy

Done by Sab, Fad, Shak

wweeee~~~ we are too excited

1 comment:

Abecedarian said...

Haha I was just talking to the K1s about myopia, citing glasses as its hallmark. And about how people don't much take care of their eyes by spending too much time on the computer, watching tv, etc.
Then they pointed out accusingly that myself and this other teacher who had just come in, we wore glasses.
Grown-ups guilty as charged XD

PS: On the road to getting better! =) Was so tired out yesterday I slept right through *sheepish* My mum may accompany me to SGH for a checkup next week if there's time.

PPS: You girls use the strikethrough! I have found kindred spirits!