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Computers in Primary Education

As technology advances, our society is constantly expanding the role of computers in our everyday lives. To keep pace, each new generation will need to feel comfortable with their computer skills, either as users or as tool-makers for users.

Computers must thus be incorporated into primary-level education. Just as reading is taught first as a skill itself, then as a means to an end (learning other stuff via reading), we need to familiarize young children with computers so that they may eventually be viewed as a natural means to some greater goal (ie, communication, organization, research, modeling, etc).

How should we go about this? How are we doing so far?

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