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Mary Walker

Never too young to learn!
May 18, 2007

When do our kids just play? Compu Child is the nation’s leader in preschool computer education. The company is dedicated to preparing preschoolers for the academic challenges of tomorrow through computer education today.

Ben Feller with the Associated Press stated “Even in a nation where most every school has Internet access, computer use often starts by nursery school.” Teachers contend that states must embrace the idea of training computer users at a younger age. Computer science, like other subjects, is battling for time on a student’s schedule, where reading and math dominate the program.

Jim Lindberg, who teaches computer software applications to high school students in Tacoma, Wash., said in the AP story that, “Students don’t have to take our classes, it’s only an option. They would use the skills they learn for the rest of their lives.”

Students, who can customize their cell phones and text message all day long, need to see how computer science could benefit them. If we could find a way to show them that, then they would jump on learning computers. A friend of mine checked her daughter’s cell phone and found out that she had sent text messages all day at school. She was able to send these without taking the phone out of her purse! Of course, she lost phone privileges for a week.

I have never really been involved in Junior Achievement; however I have many friends that work in the program. They go to schools, tell students why they should be accountants, lawyers and even supply chain management professionals.Would this not be the place to encourage students to take computer training, to take public speaking, and convince them that English is an important subject that will benefit them in the business world?

Parents enroll their children in day care, pay extra for their computer training, then when they get in the higher grades, we do not insist they enroll in computer training.Possibly one day this will be a required subject.You have to learn someday, most college classes require papers to be typed.Wait till a professor hands them an “APA Formatting and Style Guide.”

Posted by Mary Walker on May 18, 2007 | Comments (0)