Schools that use computers for education should give all pupils in an equal way a chance of getting used to the technical aspects of it. The basis principles of the user's manual, you could say. It is not realistic if a school has the idea ‘that children have a computer at home, so that the school doesn't have to pay attention to the technical aspects of it'.
At first not all pupils have a computer at home (many do, but not all) and secondly their technical knowledge is -- mostly the case with the elementary school age -- often less than you would expect.
The fact that children can be so committed in playing games on the computer doesn't mean for instance that they also know how to organize files using filenames and folders. Or how to change the screen to 256 colors, if a game would ask for that…
Example
What the technical aspects concern, a school should definitely pay more attention to software that isn't used at home.
An example of that is the use of collaborative tools, or software to work together. On school-level, that could be a web-tool as Kidstoday , to be able to make a school paper together.
Points of attention
As a parent you can check if a school has imported the instructions of the technical aspects of computers as part of the educational program and on which moment in the school career this will take place.
