Resumen Taller L. Monke-Muktha Jost

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Does the use of televisions and computers by preschool children� promote or diminish cultural diversity? Can small children use high� technology without losing touch with their cultural roots? Is the computer� the answer to meeting the diverse learning needs of young children? Are� there other tools that can do the job better?

The Alliance for Childhood understands technology literacy in a much more expansive way. We believe that the most important element in technology literacy is developing the dispositions and relationship with the world in such a way that the encounters that one has with all sorts of technologies, from hammers and pencils to the Internet, are positive and ecologically beneficial encounters. Given that perspective, the education of small children becomes crucial to the development of their future capacities to judge and employ powerful tools for the benefit of not only themselves, but their communities and the wold as a whole. Beyond even that, it is imperative that small children continue to go about the ancient task of discovering their full powers as human beings before they become too deeply involved with powerful technologies that can serve to substitute for and even curtail that development.

This workshop will provide� pre-school teachers with an opportunity to discuss how the technologies in their preschools influence the way children respond to diversity. It will� also provide some guidelines from the Alliance for Childhood for� selecting learning tools and activities that promote a healthy attitude� toward diversity.��