What Does the Teacher Need To Know? word processing with students

An Analysis of Kindergarten Children's Use of a Word Processor in Their Print Literacy Development

“…not a vehicle for exploring and expanding our world. (p. 12) Ch~istensen, 1983;Daiute, 1983Daiute, , 1985Eagan, 1984;Fishe~, 1983;Halpern, 1984;Olds, 1985;Papert, 1980; J. Smith, 1983), Donald Graves (G["een, 1984) •.• the mini-computer and word-processo~, because they carry the competence to sto["e and edit, represent a breakth~ough fo[" composition, and young children seem to have ["ema~kable facility in learning to handle compute ["s. (p. 28) Although there are many enthusiastic suppo["te["s, very little investigation of the word processing tool and early w["iting has occur["ed (Kurth, 1984;Miller, 1984;Watt, 1983).…”

“…in most cases, chlld~en would contInue wIth the w~lting whIch they had begun the p~evious day. As othe~s have speculated, child~en we~e also spending mo~e time composing, apparently due to thei~ enjoyment of using the compute~(Eagan, 1984; Fishe~. 1983; Ku~th.…”