The Childhood and the Modernity of the Cyberspace: the Challenges of the Interaction Child – Computer

Abstract

The text discusses aspects of the child’s relationship with the computer and their effects in the Education. Opposed to the traditional tendency of Pedagogy, the inclusion of digital means in the learning is a reality. We present results of a research with pedagogic material for the Literature for children and young people, comparing the effects of the use of traditional didactic material, the use of computerized material and the conjugation of the two types. We detached the effects of child’s – computer interaction and the importance of the digital culture in the child’s cognitive development. For understand the stages of the development of this interaction, we used an adaptation of the study developed by Abigail Housen about the sequence of the development in the people’s manners to see the art. We propose five explanatory apprenticeships of the evolution of the previously mentioned relationship: descriptive, narrative, constructive, classification, interpretative and creation.