Obviously, kids that young (grades 1-5) are not allowed to visit this site, but as you said, their teachers would and should have a lot of questions specific to that age range. Middle school questions about how to enrich/accelerate the learning of the 3 Rs with tablets most definitely should be on topic, imho.

With "writing" replaced by typing :-)

Also, there's the controversial issue of whether kids that young should be allowed to use calculators to do arithmetic...

Well, I feel pretty confident that the teaching of reading and writing and arithmetic, all entire fields of pedagogy in their own right, don't belong on a site for education about computer science

In fact, we have a sister site, matheducators, which would consider arithmetic to be in their scope.

SE could, at some point in the future, have a site for reading comprehension education. I'd probably be heavily involved in such a site.

Maybe englisheducators

@BenI. I'm pretty sure English Language Learners has that mostly covered. ELU mostly takes more in-depth questions. Literature is about... well, literature. Teaching English doesn't really fit in IMO; but we will explain what a passage means when necessary.

Looks like 94 questions have the technology-in-education tag at math educators.se

While 16 have the calculators tag.

The software tag falls in between at 33 questions.

\o @Buffy

@Mithrandir I'm pretty sure that ELL has nothing at all to do with classroom reading/writing instruction, which are each vast fields in their own right, each with multiple different types of PhDs (and various professional doctorates). Pedagogical theory for literacy instruction fall under the auspices of the sorts of things that they teach at education schools. It is neither about English, nor about literature.

@BenI.for what is digital literacy see cseducators.stackexchange.com/q/3815/204

New question. A pretty good one, I think.

> We intend “digital literacy” to connote those skills that (say) a history teacher can assume his / her students have, just as s/he assumes they can spell (literacy) and do simple mental arithmetic (numeracy). Higher level information handling skills are part of Information Technology.

Yet another question.

I think this is typically where the grades 1-5 learn "digital literacy:"

> The use of the Internet, including browsing, searching and creating content for the Web and communication and collaboration via e-mail, social networks, collaborative workspace and discussion forums

Nice answer on the variable question @Buffy

@Mithrandir Re-reading my message now, it came off as short, but that was 100% not intended. I was in a hurry, so I just typed out a fast reply and left. Sorry about that!!

I'm still in a hurry. I'm halfway (I hope) through (I hope) a very busy two-week (I hope) stretch. D=