Presents a set of guidelines for selecting hardware to promote students' sensory, cognitive, emotional, and social development. (MP)

Provides a checklist useful to teachers purchasing programs or wishing to create their own programs, suggesting that creating and evaluating programs on the precepts of goal setting, curiosity, and fantasy should ensure a good return on the software production/purchasing dollar. (MP)

Provides a checklist for helping educators estimate the costs of purchasing computers and maintaining a computer program. (MP)

Offers explanations of various uses of computers with children, placing appropriate applications into a developmental framework. (MP)

Discusses some critical aspects of divergent and convergent thinking, examining attributes of the public school environment that apparently foster convergent thinking and addressing the microcomputer's potential as an instrument for fostering divergent cognitive styles. (MP)

Discusses the evolution of today's family and examines issues and solutions that may contribute to a re-valuation of the child's place in society. (MP)

Stresses the importance of computers for children's learning ability, motivation, creative thinking, and social skills. (MP)

Reviews the theoretical and empirical studies concerning the relationships between the process and content of young children's symbolic play and their early literacy development. Implications for classroom practice are also presented. (MP)

This article addresses questions associated with computers: Are they advantageous in the classroom? Do they help children learn? How can teachers learn more about them? Suggests guidelines for teachers learning about computers, listing books and ERIC documents for further investigation. (MP)

Reports on some of the major issues addressed during the l8th World Congress of OMEP (Organisation Mondiale de l'Education Prescolaire). Topics discussed included maternal and infant malnutrition; social dynamics in developing (and developed) countries; the messages of high technology for children and the quality of life. (BB)

Suggests effective strategies from early childhood education to use in teaching young handicapped children. Teachers could include group activities fostering peer interaction; provide opportunities for free play; practice being less directive and more interactive; and recognize the benefits of a less teacher-controlled classroom environment. (BB)

Reviews literature focusing on six aspects of pet-person relationships that are most relevant to the growing child. Areas include love, attachment, and comfort; sensorimotor and nonverbal learning; responsibility, nurturance, and competence; learning about the life cycle; therapeutic benefits; and nurturing humaness, ecological awareness, and…

Maintains that by focusing on natural strategies to facilitate language interaction, adults can become instrumental in expanding the foundations of literacy of young children. Strategies include planning stimulating learning experiences utilizing contextual cues; encouraging personalized development of child language events; anticipating and…

Addresses issues concerning (computer) keyboarding instruction in an attempt to determine if the teaching of such skills to kindergarten and primary grade students should be considered a "must" in the early childhood curriculum or if such practices might have some drawbacks. (BB)

Maintains that children's thinking skills can be developed and improved through discussions of children's literature. Provides suggestions of how teachers can help students to develop their thinking through questioning techniques and children's literature. Also presents various teaching strategies involving learning activities that allow students…