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Key Considerations. Before a student can meaningfully engage in digital learning, they need access to a device and the internet. As a professional on the frontlines of an educational landscape that is increasingly digital, it is important for you to have a current understanding of what technology tools are available, what your school can and does provide, and what your families can access.
The Departments’ four guiding principles for use of technology with early learners are as follows: Guiding Principle #1: Technology—when used appropriately—can be a tool for learning. Guiding Principle #2: Technology should be used to increase access to learning opportunities for all children. Guiding Principle #3: Technology may be used ...
Helping teachers to experience the frameworks while gaining a deeper understanding of the digital literacy related standards, could be a way to help teachers prepare to integrate technology in the classroom. Review of Broader Problem Regardless of instructional frameworks used, standards to be covered and subject areas of instruction, teachers
Cyberchase is an animated science fantasy children's television series that airs on PBS Kids.The series centers around three children from Earth: Jackie, Matt and Inez, who are brought into Cyberspace, a digital universe, in order to protect it from the villainous Hacker (Christopher Lloyd). [4]
Teaching and Teacher Education 67 (2017) 189e201. demonstration video exemplars) and teachers' FOI. Isolating and examining teachers' use of online PD resources, their relationship with teachers' FOI, and teachers' perceived usefulness of those online supports can inform the design of future online curricular support systems.
Meaningful integration of technology can transform literacy instruction (Hutchison & Reinking, 2011). Although iPads and other similar tablets have not been extensively studied as a literacy-teaching tool in the early childhood classroom, Dobler’s (2012) work with first-graders using iPads provides anecdotal evidence that slightly older ...
This book is designed to build educators' confidence and competence so they can bring STEM to life with young children. The authors encourage pre-K teachers to discover the value of engaging preschoolers in scientific inquiry, technological explorations, engineering challenges, and math experiences based on learning trajectories.
The five programs profiled in this report show that it is possible to give pre-K teachers rich, research-based training that prepares them to work with young children. However, there is a scarcity of opportunities focused on the developmental needs of young children and most programs lack the funding to execute them well.