Learning to surf the net before learning to read

More Nursery School Children Going Online .

Before they can even read, almost one in four children in nursery school is learning a skill that even some adults have yet to master: using the Internet. Some 23 percent of children in nursery school — kids age 3, 4 or 5 — have gone online, according to the Education Department. By kindergarten, 32 percent have used the Internet, typically under adult supervision.

On the one hand, children are curious – about the world, about everything… and on the other, surfing the internet is largely intuitive… especially for this generation of children born into technology… A world moving towards a constructivist approach to learning – where the learner constructs knowledge according to his or her own understanding of the concept – construction moves the focus of learning from the teacher to the taught.

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