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Play School introduces texting and tweeting

How young is too young? Popular pre-school TV programme Play School recently aired an episode that showed the presenter tweeting, blogging, texting, emailing and checking his ‘play book’ on a cardboard computer.

I certainly don't think there's any harm in this. One critic pointed out that these kids can't even read and write yet. That may be true but they can certainly see what's going on around them. Introducing these sorts of concepts can only broaden their horizons. Wouldn't it be worse if shows like this ignored changes and developments in society.

Probably more of a challege here is making sure that when these kids do make it to 'real' school, they're able to continue their development and association with technology …

Greg Adams, Editor, INTERFACE

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Open wide, it's play book as Play School tackles social media

The ABC pre-school program has tackled space exploration and homosexuality, and now is explaining to kids as young as three communicating via Twitter and Facebook.
In a recently aired episode, presenter Matt Passmore tweeted, blogged, texted, emailed and checked his "play book" on a cardboard computer.
"What can I do while I wait? I know, I will Twitter," Passmore said. Play School executive producer Jan Strandling said the cyber world was increasingly relevant to pre-schoolers.

Source: Herald Sun

More at: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/open-wide-its-play-book-as-play-school-tackles-social-media/story-e6frf7kx-1226448716612

Play School is an educational TV programme for pre-schoolers: http://www.abc.net.au/abcforkids/sites/playschool/

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