Cyber Kids

The BBC carries a story about the early age children are beginning to experience the web:

By the age of four, 45% of children have used a mouse to point and click, 27% have used a computer on their own at home, rising to 53% for six-year-olds, and 30% have looked at websites for children at home.

The BBC Cbeebies online producer Olivia Dickinson also comments:

“They use fine motor skills when they use the mouse or keyboard. So they can go up to using the spacebar, to using the arrow keys, to using the mouse. They also learn some gross motor skills, in terms of some of the bigger movements of the mouse, but also in terms of physical development, when we give them activities to do in front of the computer, like dance and music. We’ve got a few games where if you keep hitting the spacebar the Teletubbies appear, and that just gets them into what a computer is.”

BBC NEWS :The rise of the cyber-children