Until now we have been concerned about the effectiveness of electronic media carefully. Several questions were raised in this paper; How TV and computer had already been in our lives are treated In early childhood education and how electronic media cu...
Until now we have been concerned about the effectiveness of electronic media carefully. Several questions were raised in this paper; How TV and computer had already been in our lives are treated In early childhood education and how electronic media curriculum can be developed for children?
To answer these questions, the children's electronic media environment and the reality, purposes, contents and activities of electronic media were investigated based on researches The electronic media-television, computer- have an important in the children's lives, but they have not been treated systematically and appropriately within a curriculum for children.
The purposes of electronic media curriculum-TV literacy and computer literacy program- are to let audiences possess media subjectively, and then to enhance children's competences to read and write media appropriate to age and developmental level. Specifically, the purpose of children's television literacy curriculum is to respond actively to the contents of TV getting ready for the critical attitude toward television. The purpose of children's computer literacy curriculum is to be familiar with the computer and then to have a desired attitude, skills and knowledge on computer.
Being founded on these purpose of electronic media education for children, we must develop continually and specifically. To prevent negative influence of electronic media and to use it wisely, we need to develop the curriculum base on ecological sound research and parent's and teacher's training focused on teaching and teaming with the use of TV and computer.
The child of today will learn about and team from ubiquitous electronic media, whether teachers use them or not. They can be an essential aspect of a rich educational environment, if and only if a human teacher embraces them into a humanistic vision of early childhood education.