WHAT´S THE BEST AGE TO GET STUDENTS INTO TECHNOLOGY?

Well, I think that the best age to get students into technology is when they are children,when they are in kindergarden or in primary school, because that is the age when they are developing their four macro skills and they are like a sponge that absorb everything they see or do. At that age students learn too fast, they learn how to use a program, how to use a computer, how to type, etc. It is also good to know that there are some good programs for students to learn by playing a game, reading an interactive book, drawing, or checking some interactive web pages or watching some movies that will help our students to develop a little bit more. Some people think that the new generations have to be uptaded with all the new tools that technology offers and everything but I think that if students learn for example how to surf in the internet in their early years they can become addicted to it and it is not going to be something good for them. Our parents were not used to use a computer, they used to do all the job in schools by hand such as: drawing, writing, etc. or when they had to look for more information for a homework, they used to go to the libraries and read as much as they could. I am not saying that that is the way it has to continue but our students have become lazies sometimes and they prefer to surf in the internet, look for information and then copy and paste. Nowadays, it looks like if stidents have forgotten about the books and trust only in the information they can find in the internet. I know that the information that we can find in a book is outdated sometimes but it sometimes is good. I think that if we let our studentts get involved into technology at any age it will always have it pros and cons. It is important to know that if we get students into technology do it in the right way in order to help them and not to destroy them making them lazies, procratinators, etc. As teachers we have to know that the new generations have to be updated with technology but giving it the right usage.