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Excessive video game playing does NOT help kids develop real life skills. However, parents can guide their children's use of digital technologies to enhance their critical thinking and self-regulatory skills. For example, parents could learn about the learning tools and practice using digital technologies which could help in couching and motivating your child.
E-learning for kids is one of the best ways to enchance the learning process in kids. It is an internet course for children who wants to improve their skills and knowledge in their education fields. All of the lessons can be done online or offline if you purchase the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM of the lessons. E-learning for kids is basically to help the kids to master or to understand better on the basics of reading, science, maths, computers and etc. As we all know that we are now in the technology era, kids will have to learn how to use the internet and the e-learning tools effectively in order to be succeed in their future careers. Parents can help their kids to get a head start by motivating their children and search for websites that provide free e-learning resources for their kids. The websites that offer different types of courses could be in online and offline format. There are a lot of courses that provide e-learning services for kids like Math, Language Arts, Science and etc. These courses created mainly for kids around 5-12 years old.
Website like http://www.aaastudy.com/ has free math tutorials with practice problems for kids who want to improve their math skills. AAA Math provides a lot of lessons sorted by grade level. Parents could even purchase the CD from AAA Math for their child to practice offline. Do you know that practice makes perfect? AAA Math provides a lot of interesting activities which could grab the child's attention. One of the activities is online games. Online games in e-learning could help the kids to be more sensitive and alert. These e-learning games are interactive and educational. These practice problems of Maths are helpful for the kids because they provide instant feedback whereby they will guide the kids through the steps. In addition, parents play a very important role in the development of children's education. By using interactive learning tools provided in e-learning for kids, kids can interact with the texts and work better on skills like interpretation and summarization of the questions and answers.
Advantages of e-learning for kids
E-learning for kids will help to enchance and motivate the kids' brain to be more alert toward their surrounding and to be able to differentiate what is good, wrong, danger and so on.
Convenience is also one of the major advantages in e-learning. For those parents who are always busy with their work in the office but they are concern about their child's education, they could always sign up their kids to e-learning for kids lesson. It is convenient for the parents and for the kids as well. They do not have to waste their time to find a tuition centre.
Not only that, accessibility is also one of the advantages in e-learning. Children could learn and study online anywhere and anytime. They could do their practices online or offline. It is accessible anywhere and anytime. For an example, the children could do their practices and studying at her parent's working place if their parents do not have the time to look after of their children but to bring along their children to their working place.
Drawbacks of e-learning for kids
It can be difficult for those teachers or parents who teach the kids around 5-12 years old via e-learning because most of the teachers and parents are used to face-to-face teaching method. Furthermore, parents or teachers find children with lack of self-discipline hard to teach. These type of kids need to be taught face-to-face.
In short, e-learning for kids is a very interesting way of learning for kids as they could engage to a new system of learning. Kids nowadays are all engaging to the technologies system. Do you still remember our mission and vision for the future generation? Yes, to help the future generation to be IT savvy. So, e-learning for kids will be the first step to help our future generation.
References:
- aaastudy [Online], Retrieved on Sunday, 24th January 2010
