Developing computer games for younger preschoolers: an overview of sites
According to forecasts of sociologists and economists more than 70%today's small inhabitants of the new information society will inevitably use computer technology in their adult professional activities. And almost all the children, who are now 5-6 years old, will very soon join the indissoluble ranks of the information and communication user community.
Dear parents, try not to missthis important stage (dating with a computer in the form of a children's game) in the development of your children. On how much your child will be prepared for life in this computer society, in many respects depends not only on his equal existence in peer environment, but also on the future successful education and career.
When and where to start acquaintance of the child with the computer
The last steps of the technical revolution in everythingthe world, and in Russia, and even more so, occurred so quickly that the official pedagogical science simply did not have time to develop unambiguously acceptable recommendations on the computer education of preschool children.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)already there is, the technical base is brought, but how to use all this in practice, teachers of pre-school educational institutions do not yet know. But most of them admit that children need to comprehend the basics of computer literacy before the beginning of schooling, ie. at four or five years of age.
Full computer training in our children'sgardens are still impossible, it means that the main tasks of educating the information culture for children should be addressed by their parents, and the process of introducing the future generation to modern computer technologies is transferred to the home territory.
Forms of interaction of young children withcomputer is practically not discussed: the game and only the game. It is doubtful, but we will take this as an axiom. Let's see what pedagogical Internet portals offer for the development and training of preschoolers. With a seemingly wide variety of network resources, there is no particular choice.
Analysis of children's game Internet resources
1. Children's lessons.
Beautiful children's site containing a large numberwell-executed educational games. By age assignment is designed for children 3-5 years. Perhaps, it is from visiting such portals and it is worth starting to introduce the child to the computer and its development. Access is free, play as much as you want.
2. We are playing.
Contains several categories: cognitive games; games for attention and memory; games on logic and thinking; coloring; puzzles; riddles and puzzles. In each section there are more than 30 different games. The most pure children's game site, high-quality design and scoring. Designed for children aged 5-6 years, but there are very interesting games, even for younger students. A big plus: free on-line access.
3. Logosauria.
The site of children's learning and developing computergames (puzzles, coloring pages, rebuses, Sudoku, Japanese crossword puzzles, solitaire games and other puzzles). In total, more than 120 games are classified into 22 types. Some are quite applicable even for older preschoolers. There is already a commodity-money relationship. The program-methodical complex "Learning with the Logos!" Will have to be bought for 2200 rubles.
4. Fairy-tale education.
Specialized children's games website forpreparation for school. Contains kits: learn to count, learn to read, train memory, learn to be attentive, train intelligence. Each set contains 25 one-time games-simulators and, unfortunately, spreads for money (105 rubles / set).
Of the twenty popular sources thatare actively advertised in the network and are recommended on pedagogical forums, we managed to select with a big stretch only four. But this is already good, since it's quite enough for the initial training of communication skills with the computer even this array.
According to the expert group of the Children's Centercomputer technologies under the leadership of Stanislav Kobzev, all the selected complexes of developing computer games not only meet the tasks of forming an information culture for children aged 4-6, but also fully correspond to the didactic goals of preschool education.
Naturally, parents have the right to choose their ownthe original way of familiarizing the child with a computer, for example, using the information capabilities of the network as a tool for learning about the world around him, but in any case, it is necessary to make the preschooler happy with the ICT world, and the sooner the better.
Author: Katerina Sergeenko
