Does your child know how to send an email? Does he know how to connect to Yhaoo. com page? What about typing in Microsoft Word, an assignment from school? Many children don’t. We are moving into a computerized world, and that will force us to use the computer and internet in everyday life. Even in basic things like buying food at the supermarket. That’s why I think every child in the state should be given Computer and Internet classes. Technology is improving everyday, everything is becoming more and more self sufficient, and soon we won’t be able to do important things if we won’t know how to use the computer.
In some stores like Home Depot, Target and Safeway you already have to scan the products yourself. Knowing how to use a computer shouldn’t make it a problem. If your child has an assignment to do, and need to go to the library to look through books, he will have to know how to use a computer in order to search for the books she / his is looking for. What if your child’s handwriting is legible? It will be necessary for him to know how to use Microsoft Word, so he can type and print his assignments. The assignments will be neat and much more fun to read for his teacher. He will also be able to check his spelling with program, and it will tell him what his mistakes are and correct them.
After a few works done he would type so fast that you won’t be able to sit down by the time he will finish typing. Ok, so he knows how to use the computer and he is super in typing. But unfortunately your child gets the flu, and can’t make it to class to hand in the assignment on time. That’s where I think internet should also be taught. That way he will be able to email his teacher the assignment, and won’t get an F. When your child grows up, and wants to go to college, he will have to know how to use the internet because today every thing is done over the internet.
That includes: registering for classes, paying the fees, checking your grades and much more. He will have to know how to load the college web page, create a user and log in, how to look for classes, and so on. The internet will also open for him a new wide world. He will be able to find almost anything if not everything. My suggestion, in order to prepare are children for the computerized world, is to give them computer and internet lessons starting from kindergarten. I think about 3 hour a week will be good enough for the knowing the basics, or else the children will be hopeless..