Computers are not helpful in elementary schools because they only hurt children’s brains and are not productive. Computers actually can take away from the child’s development.
Alison Armstrong author of “The Child and The Machine” believes that “Children who learn to read and write using computer technology doesn’t enhance or improve literacy skills at all, because the act of reading and comprehension is probably the single most important predictor of how well a child does academically throughout their life. Children’s development is slowed down. There is no research to support that it is tremulously successful from many stand points.”
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Marty Murphy
Programs such as "Your Baby Can Read" teach children to read at a young age. Incorporating the technology of television with books and flash card, children learn to read around the first few months of life. The program say the window for learning is the strongest up till the age of approximately 5 years old.
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