It closes with directions for change. This examination of the new technology challenges confronting schools, makes clear that low-income children are disproportionately at risk of being left behind. Because low income families are less likely to have new technologies in the home, and low income schools are usually ill-equipped with communications systems, these children face a doubly acute risk of information isolation. As we have seen, this has implications for future job prospects and other areas of life. Using a simple keyboard or a touch-sensitive screen, the computer can present images of letters, animals or other objects.
Many systems can also recognize and repeat sounds.
Computer programs that enable children to learn math, spelling, geography and other subjects, often in the form of a game or adventure. Software for both individual and collaborative learning exists. Typed messages sent from one computer screen to another along a network linking the units. Transmitting messages from one computer to another offers children the ability to instantly communicate through written messages with scientists, teachers, other students and friends anywhere in the world. New creative tools allowing children to draw and to design their own original art and other imaginative creations.