What kinds of Education are Children Being Exposed to Through the Internet

e Crayola.com site has links to coloring activities,
             arts and crafts, the "Card of the Day", colored by a child on the site, and
             links to a card creator. There is an area of fun facts and creative
             quotes, as well as links to send cards to other children. Spread
             throughout the page are links to special offers for parents.
             On both pages, children are able to integrate knowledge they already
             have with new information they can gain through the activities. However,
             the activities on each site differ greatly. The LEGO site has, for
             example, a gaming page, as does the Crayola site. On the LEGO page, the
             pictured games consist of a racing car game, a spy game, a hockey game, and
             a snowboard game. In addition, there are links to an inventor game, asking
             students to use gears, motors, and axels to build contraptions, and areas
             to build and design worlds. The LEGO site also has links to pre-school
             games, including a maze game, and a game in which the child builds a town.
             The links to the site include maze games, memory games, and quizzes.
             The Crayola site, on the other hand, has a different set of games.
             Rainbow, the Sprouting Trout, for example, matches colors to gain higher
             scores. There is a puzzle link, in which children can choose which puzzle
             to put together. There is an idea generator, which generates random
             sentences to help children form stories. There is an area to color eggs,
             as well as many games in which the child colors and mixes different objects
             In both sites, the content of the games can help educate children.
             The LEGO site teaches motor skills, memory skills, basic math, and reading
             skills, and aids children in creative thinking. The Crayola site teaches
             those same values and concepts through their games. However, the
             difference appears in the way the concepts are presented. As a general
             rule, the LEGO site presents these ideas from a more technica...

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