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Learn how to incorporate technology into Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms for improved literacy, math, and science skills. Develop engaging desktop activities for interactive learning, promoting digital literacy and independent exploration. Explore resources and strategies for successful tech integration in early education.
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Making it Click:Technology Use for Preschool and Early Childhood April 19th, 2011 By Rachel Hurst EPSY 457 XM Instr. Evangeline Pianfetti
The Scenario • You are teaching Pre-K through Kindergarten and design curriculum for yourself and five other classrooms at your charter school in Evanston. • You want to do more with technology and integrate it into the different subject areas.
Challenge • You’ve been asked by the school board to do a presentation on technology, to convince them to contribute budget towards class IT. TASKS: • Revise curriculum • Develop a desktop with researched applets
REQUIREMENTS: • Literacy (4) • Math (4) • Science (2) • Letter/ Shape Tracing for special needs
Research Foundation Ideal applications: • Have vivid graphics • Open-ended for student-inputted learning (Constructivism) • Allow for independent exploration • Scaffold with grid system
Classroom trials Video, Click5
The Suite Desktop (with custom icons)
The Board • The charter school is run by an administrative team and Northwestern; we are not part of Dist. 65 but feed into it. • Website for use in presentations to encourage support and as a teacher resource. • http://www.rhurst3-CTER.homestead.com
Challenges to Educators • How would you go about researching and implementing a new program for technology-integration at your school? • What is important to you in promoting digital literacy in your students?
Resources • Image of child using Glow Writer from Apple, http://www.apple.com • Video, “Click5” filmed by Meredith Hudson; edited by Rachel Hurst • Screenshots of Imagine Learning English from Imagine Learning http://www.imaginelearning.com • Screenshot of Clicker5 from Crick Software http://www.cricksoftware.com • Screenshot of Communicate: Symwriter from Widgit, http://www.donjohnston.com
Resources, cont. • Screenshot of Mathosaurus1 from Micrograms Software, http://www.micrograms.com • Screenshot of Trudy’s Time and Place from Riverdeep, http://www.hminnovation.com • Screenshot of Tabletop Jr from The Learning Company, http://www.smartkidssoftware.com • Logo from Worsley School Tangrams from Worsley Schools, http://www.worsleyschool.net/ • Screenshot of Zoboomafoo from PBSKids.org, from http://www.pbskids.org
Resources, cont. • Screenshot of Sammy’s Science House from Riverdeep, http://www.hminnovation.com