"The children's challenge: new technologies to support co-located and distributed collaboration" report on the CSCW 2000 panel

"The Children’s Challenge: New Technologies to Support Co-Located and Distributed Collaboration" Report on the CSCW 2000 Panel by Amy Bruckman, Allison Druin, Kori Inkpen, and Jenny Preece Today's children can be found spending hours interacting with computers, playing games, sending email to friends, visiting chat rooms, and sharing games over the Internet. At the same time, if there are five computers in a room with five children, within a few minutes, half of the children will be gathered around each other's computers.