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- Volume 28
- Issue 3
- Publication Date: Summer 2005
Beyond Gaming: A Technology Explosion in Early Childhood Classrooms
Nancy Hertzog and Marjorie Klein
“Oooh, why don’t you use Wingdings? That’s cool!”
“Look at that! It’s glopping! Let’s make it glop all over!”
These 5-year-old children are using new vocabulary to describe font styles in Simple Text and to illustrate their pictures using the paint tool in Kid Pix (Broderbund). They are mentoring each other on the use of those programs and giving ongoing evaluative feedback as to the quality of their creation.
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