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So far, 65,000 child-size computers have been distributed to Rwandan kids aged 5 to 12 by Laptop Per Child Association.

Within days of receiving their machines, rural girls in Rwanda had become experts at programming.

The OLPC concept in Afghanistan is based on the idea that technology can reach the generation of children and connect them to each other and the world’s body of knowledge.

Children who participated in that experiment in 2001 and 2002 are still in first and second grades at school.

Read the following article. For questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B or C) which you think fits best according to the text.

Knowledge of computers is a must for anyone to go ahead in life today and this is one of the reasons why computer technology is being taught in schools to children from a very young age. Modern children are also very computer savvy and they pick up things much faster than adults. This amazes the older generation when they see how efficient children are in handling computers and their ability to get the maximum out of them. While parents do want their children to learn all about computers; they, at the same time, have reservations about children using computers and worry their still untrained young minds might be corrupted by gaining access to things they don’t understand.

KIDS GETTING INTERNET SAVVY AT A YOUNGER AGE

Offline, she hugs her favourite Barbie doll. Online, she chats with her friends or plugs into social networking site Facebook.

She is only 10.

Primary 4 schoolgirl Chang Yuet Ying is among what may be a growing trend of Internet-savvy young children.

Yuet Ying began playing online games for children two years ago, after her father let her use the family computer for her homework.

A few months ago, she and her classmates at CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School set up their own Facebook accounts to chat after school.

The girls play online games like Pet Society, a popular Facebook application that lets users raise virtual pets.

Yuet Ying’s father, Mr Chang Nam Yuen, 58, managing director of RehabMart, a homecare supplies retail chain, is confident his elder daughter can be supervised when online at home.

He said his younger daughter, who is four, is still too young to go online.

He said: “If I don’t stop Yuet Ying from playing after an hour, she can stay glued to the computer the whole day.”

Educators and counsellors say it is inevitable that, in this wired age where computers are common in households, young children are getting online too.

Already, children as young as four are spending hours watching videos on YouTube, chatting on MSN and playing online games.

While there are no official figures on how many primary school children are on networking sites like Facebook, teachers and counsellors say it is not unusual for these young surfers to be members.

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