Technology

Technology: What works for ECE

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Technology for Teaching Literacy

Kindergarten Content Standard 1 Objective 1A Listen Attentively.

Pedagogy: In this lesson children will listen to the story and be able to read the words as they are shown.

Technology: We will be using the story The Kindergarten Concert by Robert Pottle from the website http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ .

Technology for Teaching Mathematics

Content:  Standard 2 Objective 2B Duplicate and extend simple repeating patterns with numbers and shapes.

Pedagogy:  In this lesson children will be taught repeating patterns through this website.

Technology:  We will be using the website http://mathforum.org/mathtools/ and the game called color patterns under the Kindergarten Patterns and Sequences section.

ECE Technology Inventory

I interviewed a lower grade teacher, Miss DeWitt who teaches at a local elementary school.  Miss DeWitt said that her classroom has several technology tools available for her to use and for the students to use.  In her classroom there are two computers that the children get to take turns using.  There is an overhead projector that she uses on an almost daily basis.  There are a set of classroom calculators that the children can use for math assignments.  The classroom also has a television with a DVD/VCR player.  The teacher also has a digital camera that she uses occasionally.

Miss DeWitt said that there are several technologies that she wishes she had in the classroom.  She would like to have more computers so the students could use them more frequently for assignments instead of going to the computer lab.  Miss DeWitt also wishes that she could have a visualizer and a Smartboard.  She says that would help her in her instruction and she would use it every single day.

Miss DeWitt also said that she uses technology every day when she prepares materials for her class.  She also uses some form of technology every single day in class and often times uses several.  Miss DeWitt is a big proponent of using technology in the classroom.  She believes that all teachers should incorporate technology as often as possible.  And she gets ideas on how to incorporate more techonology from the internet and other teachers.

Digital Camera

Content: 1st Grade Standard 3 Objective 1C

Pedagogy: Hands-on

Technology: Digital Camera

The children will grow a plant in the classroom throughout the school year.  Every couple of weeks (or when the plant reaches a new stage) a picture will be taken.  The pictures will be put into a powerpoint presentation to reinforce the information learned.

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Using technology in the classroom can range from short and simple lessons to being an integral part of long-term projects.  Technology should be used in addition to hands-on learning, and should not take the place of important tasks children need to accomplish during their early years.

Technology can help children improve their social development, their language development, their cognition and general knowledge.

Technology can support educational goals and support content standards when used in a planned, guided manner.  It can help with students' language development and emergent literacy and mathematics.  Adult participation and guidance are important.

When selecting software for young children, it is critical to choose software that is DAP.  It should:

Encourage exploration, imagination, and problem solving

Reflect and build on what children already know

Involve many senses and include sound, music, and voice

Be open-ended, with the child in control of the pace and the path

Hardware that can be used in the classroom:

Tape recorders

Video cameras

TV/VCRs

Fax machines

Portable keyboards

Digital microscopes

Computers

For choosing technology to be used with younger children, the best choice for a particular situation may be no new technology, or just simple tape recorders and cameras.

5 effective ways for young children to use technology
1. Make and display a graph
- build a physical graph with objects, then a two-dimensional one on a spreadsheet or graphing program on a computer
-use meaningful topics for the kids (clothes colors, transportation to school, etc.)
-helps with transfer from concrete to abstract understanding
2. Explore with digital tools
-investigate the familiar world from new perspectives--close-up photos digital microscopes or cameras
-record scenes and sounds (and other senses or feelings) while exploring for later reference
3. Tell a story in pictures and words
-create stories and pictures with background voices that the kids use their creativity to make--they will love that they can see their creations
4. Write, record, and revisit
-use digital photographs, captions, drawings, voice recordings, etc. to record class activities
-make an electronic slideshow of a class book with individual contributions about the curriculum
5. Share and document learning
-chronicle and document learning progress
-take family portraits at Open House to display and send home

Other information: http://caseyelle.blogspot.com/2009/03/notes-from-research.html