I recently talked with my cousin about child's early development program.
She is a mother of two young children... three and five year old.
She sends her kids to learn a pretty much everything, includs her three year old little girl.
Consistenly memorizing the words..
Watching dvd(s)...
Doing assignments until late at nights...
They learn... math, science, spanish, music, korean... plus extacurricular activities.
My cousin believes that doing those activities will lead them to go to the "good" colleges.
They are doing great for thier ages. She believes her kids have to learn when they are young. It because the kids' brains are like the "sponges" and absorbes everything that they have learned.
I don't know if I should agreed or not........
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What an interesting set of questions you've framed here, Seung. As you are aware, in many early learning contexts there are moves to accelerate the speed at which kids are exposed to "academic" content. There is also a parallel movement that fears that we run the risk of denying our kids their childhood by rushing them into academics. They argue for the importance of play (even though it can be hard to measure the benefits) in the development of a child, and want to slow things down a bit.
ReplyDeleteCloser to our topic, there is a debate about when it is appropriate to allow computers into classrooms. If you want to explore this topic a bit more, Seung, here's one place to look...there are many others.
There's also a study on the web I know of called "Fool's Gold," which takes a critical stance regarding computers in the education of young people.