Acta Didactica Napocensia
Volume 10 Number 4, pages 1-10
Published: 25 December 2017
Preschool and Primary
School Pedagogy Specialization Students’ Opinion about Computers in Education
Iuliana Zsoldos-Marchis
Abstract. Computers became an
important tool in most of the working places. Also, children today grow with
different technological devices around, they start to use them from very early
ages. Thus Education should integrate these technological devices from more
purposes: they are attractive for children, they need to learn how to use them
properly and usefully, and they will need this technological knowledge in their
future. Teachers, first of all, need a positive attitude towards integrating
computers in Education, and also they need methodological and technological
knowledge for a successful computer assisted teaching. The aim of this paper is
to present a research on Preschool and Primary School Pedagogy specialization
students’ attitude towards computers in Education. The results show, that the
respondents don’t really consider computers useful in preschool, they consider
them more useful in primary school. Students see the advantages and disadvantages
of using computers by the children at home or in classroom. Students’ attitude
towards the use of computer by the children could change in time.
Keywords: computer assisted
teaching, preschool, primary school, preservice teachers, attitude towards
computer assisted teaching.