Education as a Student Teacher

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I recently finished my 5th prac at a school in Sydney with a Kindergarten class.  The school has a specialist teacher for the teaching of computers.  The students have computers for half an hour a week and I was able to observe one computer lesson whilst on prac.  The students were involved in drawing pictures using a free program known as Tux Paint.  The students really enjoyed using this program and were making some quite impressive works.

I have concerns though about how much students can learn when they only have 30 mins a week on the computers. The Kindy class took at least 10 mins just to log in.  If students are being encouraged to create their own movies, computer games and tasks, then they are going to need more frequent access to computers than once a week.