Nt1310 Unit 2 Research Paper

I would include technology and software in a play-center for early childhood education because there are some educational games that can help you children learn. The games or things they do at school they can also do at home if they have the same program at home and they can show their parents what they learned at school. It can help children be better problem solvers and help teach them how to make hard decisions. Technology can help children learn more about the world around them and how the world around them works. They can be also taught how to use a computer which can be helpful in the future when they have to write an essay, fill out college applications or even job applications. We want our children to be prepared to help them in the

future and that is why we need to let our children learn from technology and different software. When we learn these things at a young age we are able to remember and have a better understanding when we are older how it works because we remember when we used it as a child.

Things like technology will eventually be what is teaching our children and we need to be ready to help and it is proven that some kids learn better with online school than going to regular school. We know that some things on technology is bad for our kids but we want to make sure we are educating our kids not only at school but also at home and we can do that with all the technology and software that is available to us. The three software’s I chose for preschoolers is ABC Mouse, Curious World and Agnitus. According to parenting.com ABC Mouse is used to teach children age two through seven year old their ABC’s, colors and numbers through songs music and games. The cons of ABC mouse is that not all children are able to do this website and it doesn’t always help children who have trouble learning online. I feel that many schools who have computers or iPad in their preschool use ABC mouse because it is a very simple way for kids to learn easy and valuable things. The second program that parenting.com recommends for preschoolers is Curious World this program is used by all age of children through preschool to elementary

school. It is a very great program for children because it teaches children more than just their numbers, ABC’s and their colors but it teaches children to read, write and math skills they need for elementary school. The cons of this program is that the children are not always interested to do things like math addition or subtraction if there is not fun games or cool pictures to look at which can help this program be more successful. Finally, Parenting.com recommends to also use for preschoolers is Agnitus I was really surprise what I learned about this software program because I have never had one of my students use this program. But the Agnitus program is used to help children be ready for kindergarten by teaching them how to write, read, math and to recognize different thing by silly songs or by a fun and silly game. The only problem with this software is that you are only able to use it if you are going to kindergarten because it doesn’t have different levels for older children to use to help them in school. While there are many programs out there for preschoolers and elementary children I feel that these are the best programs for these children because it gives them more and a better opportunity to learn new things not only at school but also at home which can also cause parents to be more involved in their children’s learning.