These Pre-K TEKS are fascinating. I have a daughter that is three and I feel like I have really not been letting her get on a computer as much as she could be. I'm thinking about how much she should be able to do in a year and a half, after her first year of Pre-K and it is amazing. These students should be able to basically navigate through programs and be able to use the basic parts of a computer including a touch screen.
One of the scaffolding opportunities that I am seeing is in the ability for students to appropriately use the hardware and software of a computer. In Pre-K it starts off by being able to use the mouse, keyboard, recording parts and other basic hardware. By the time they are in high school, they have built on to use the hard ware for much more complicated processes like sharing information between each other. Students are also able to use much more complicated software by high school. They are no longer navigating through programs, but actually building programs.
