Applications of Technology for Instruction and Assessment with Young Children

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Author(s): Lee Allen (University of Memphis, USA)and Sally Blake (University of Memphis, USA)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 18
Source title: Technology for Early Childhood Education and Socialization: Developmental Applications and Methodologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Sally Blake (University of Memphis, USA)and Satomi Izumi-Taylor (University of Memphis, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-784-3.ch007

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Technologies in K-12 Education

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This chapter discusses the roles of technology in instruction and assessment of young children. The influx of technology in schools and homes has been rapid and wide spread. Most children today have seen or used a computer or other technological tool before they enter school. As the student-to-computer ratio has improved from 60-to-1 in 1983 (OTA, 1988) to an average 4-to-1 nationwide in 2007 (Nagel, 2007) the question is no longer whether computers can assist in early childhood learning in general, but rather how computers can and should be used and to what end (Johnson, 1998; Cuban, 2001).

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