1 / 13

Making it Click: Technology Use for Preschool and Early Childhood

Making it Click: Technology Use for Preschool and Early Childhood. April 19 th , 2011 By Rachel Hurst EPSY 457 XM Instr. Evangeline Pianfetti. The Scenario.

merv
Download Presentation

Making it Click: Technology Use for Preschool and Early Childhood

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Making it Click:Technology Use for Preschool and Early Childhood April 19th, 2011 By Rachel Hurst EPSY 457 XM Instr. Evangeline Pianfetti

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. REQUIREMENTS: • Literacy (4) • Math (4) • Science (2) • Letter/ Shape Tracing for special needs

  5. Materials should also make use of wireless technology

  6. Research Foundation Ideal applications: • Have vivid graphics • Open-ended for student-inputted learning (Constructivism) • Allow for independent exploration • Scaffold with grid system

  7. Classroom trials Video, Click5

  8. The Suite Desktop (with custom icons)

  9. 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

  10. 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?

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Resources, cont. • Screenshot of Sammy’s Science House from Riverdeep, http://www.hminnovation.com

More Related