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Do computers have the potential to change the way children think?
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Do computers have the potential to change the way children think? Children's access to computers in recent years has improved dramatically. IT is included in the school curriculum and every child has the opportunity at some point during the week to work on a computer. How this new technology impacts on a child's development is an important issue. Papert (1980) believed that through programming computers children's thinking could be changed. An alternative view is that computers provide an exciting, stimulating and collaborative medium through which the curriculum can be taught. This essay will consider each of these ideas in turn with a view of reaching some tentative conclusions as to how computers may impact on the development of children's thinking. Papert (1980) helped develop a programming language called Logo. As part of this program children are able to program a robot to draw their instructions. Papert viewed the robot as an object...
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