The Young Angels

As we know, there are many ways that technology can benefit our children. All it takes is the desire to learn how technology can be used to enhance the teaching and be open to new ideas for children. Technology is used as an educational tool to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity. For example, the educator may give the children some projects and let them do by themselves or in groups. This may strengthen their relationships between friends and peers.

They also can gains their knowledge by doing a lot of research in order to complete their projects. On the other hand, they are able to learn the cause and effect, problem solving and creative expression through doing research, projects and some games created. Hence, they can develop their self confident and self esteem as they master these and create things from the technology learned such as they can use graphic pictures from the computer to make attractive flash cards or e-cards by using their own creativity. By doing so, they also learn how to work with one or two partners rather than working alone. This prove that they can develop further their social-

emotional skills and interactions between one and another.

Examples of E-cards online that can be create through online for children to send to friends:

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On the other hand, there are many ways in which technology bring benefits especially to our students with special needs. Computers have proven extremely beneficial to kids with certain speech, audio, and motor limitations. For students with special needs, they can use alternative input and output devices to interact with computer or master strong computer skills. Through these computers, they can do things that normally could not be accomplished independently. Therefore, they also can achieve by using computer to do their work and enhance their self-esteem and provides greater sense of control and engagement with others. For example, they can learn or gain a lot of knowledge from the Internet because the Internet is a tool that contains a lot of information which relates to all around the world. Hence, they can be keep in touch with their doctors or friends through chatting or web cam.

Technology can assist them gradually to earn their means of livelihood.