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Preschoolers Grab a Mouse to Learn ABCs

The Daily Press (VA)

Preschoolers at the Robert R. Moton Early Childhood Center in Virginia are already adept users of computer programs fostering pre-reading and math skills, and they are part of a growing wave of students learning computer literacy along with their ABCs and numbers in a preschool setting.

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