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Teaching Literacy in ECE

Teaching Literacy in ECE

Content:

Standard 4
Phonics and Spelling-Students use phonics and other strategies to decode and spell unfamiliar words while reading and writing.

Objective 2
Use knowledge of structural analysis to decode words.
b. Identify sound patterns and apply knowledge to decode words (e.g., blends, digraphs, vowel patterns, r-controlled vowels).

Pedagogy:

Explicit instruction will be used to teach the concept of a digraph. The kids will also be personally participating with their own computers on the Starfall website which has a lot of activities regarding phonological and phonemic awareness. This personal experience with the digraph " sh" will help them as they hear the sound, view this digraph in different words, and are asked the identify this digraph.
Technology:

The technology we will be using is the Starfall website. This site is a great resource for literacy activities. This kids will see the digraph " sh" on the screen. They will hear how it is properly pronounced and asked to identify the digraph in different words. This will be a great resource for them as they learn about one particular digraph and how it is incorporated into words.

Teaching Math in ECE

Content:

Standard 1
Students will acquire number sense with whole numbers and fractions and perform operations with whole numbers.

Objective 2
Use unit fractions to identify parts of the whole and parts of a set.

a.Divide geometric shapes into two, three, or four equal parts and identify the parts as halves, thirds, or fourths.

Pedagogy: The kids will be experimenting with different geometrics shapes as well as doing things hands on. They will also have visual representations of the shape. These are valuable pedagogies for this topic because the kids will be able to explore for themselves by splitting objects up on their own and identifying the # of parts/ halves in each shape. 

Technology: We will be using the Virtual Math Manipulative website. With the activity presented below, the kids will be able to divide a circle into two, three, and four geometric parts. They can then identify the parts, as the fractions shows up beside the shape. This will give the kids both a visual representation and allow them to experience making fractions on their own with an objects as they are also shown the fraction. This will be a very helpful way of understanding how fractions work, as they can visualize and explore independently. 

Technology Inventory Interview

I interviewed a teacher in the Preschool on campus. I have been taught by him before, and think he is a wonderful teacher. I asked him the following questions about his classroom technology:

1. What technology is available in his classroom?

2. What technology did he wish he had in the classroom?

3. How does he use technology to get ideas and prepare for lesson and class material?

4. What technology has he used with the kids that really got their attention?

In regards to the technology available in his classroom, he said that they were equipped with digital cameras, CD players, overhead cameras for recording students, and a class computer. 

He explained that most of the technology used in class was for the teachers. His reason for not having computers for the kids and other technologies available to them for the most part in class was that kids in his class are not new to technology.  He explained that many of them, even at the age of 4, already know how to text and use their i pods! Because of the resources that are already available to them at home, including family computers, he feels that he can use further activities to stimulate their minds. 

Though the children do not use technology often in his class, he does wish he could have an LCD player in the room so that he could download pictures taken in class of the kids, and show the pictures to them on the LCD player. 

He personally uses technology frequently to help with preparations for project work. He explained that the Internet for him, is full of an immense amount of resources that helps him retrieve pictures, ideas, etc., for project work.

For my last question, I asked what technology the kids have used in his class that they have enjoyed. He explained that they had once given the kids the digital camera to take pictures while they were, I believe, on a field trip. This allowed them to capture images that they found interesting. This gave the teachers a chance to view the experience from a child's perspective. 

It is amazing how much technology has changed, even over the last 5 years! There are so many resources that are available that can assist in making lessons more exciting and learning, that much more valuable. 

XO COmputers

The EO computers were really fun to use.

In the classroom, the children could learn to take pictures, chat, and do video recordings. With this they could practice typing as they chat with friends. With the video recording, they could plan a story/ skit before they record and then act out their skit. They can then show it to their friends and chat about their story. They can also take pictures in a story order, and make them into a slide. 

Using a Digital Camera

The content is under Standard 1 in the Kindergarten core curriculum. The objective is to describe and practice responsible practices for health and safety. The main objective is to identify harmful and helpful things for the body. 

The pedagogy involves hands on experiences as they find different objects that are safe as well as harmful for our bodies. Other use of pedagogy is collaboration with the students. They will need to learn to share the camera as well as help one another learn how to use the camera. 

The technology that they will be using is a digital camera. They will be taking pictures with the camera of things that are both helpful and harmful for the body. 

Research Points

What Research Says about Technology and Child Development

Children from birth to age eight are learning at a rapid pace. During this time children learn and play across five developmental dimension:

Social and Emotional Development

Language Development

Physical Well-Being and Motor Development

Cognition and General Knowledge

Approaches Toward Learning 

• Large amounts of research focuses on the use of computers to " enhance social, language, and cognitive skills" ( NREL). 
• Social Development:Computers and software can serve as a vehicle for interaction related to the child's work. 
• Proper placement of the computer in the classroom can strike conversations between peers as they work together on activities on the computer as well as talk about new things they have learned. It can also be a motivation for children's cognitive and social dev., enhance improve their attitude about learning, increase spoken communication and cooperation skills, and initiate interactions with peers more frequently. 
• Language Development: Encourages longer, more complex speech and the development of fluency
• Children speak out loud and narrate as they read on the computer of draw pictures.
• Children learn to cooperate with peers as they share, take turns, and talk about what they are doing.
• Physical Well-Being and Motor Development: Computers allow them to write freely without having to had completely developed good handwriting skills. They should not sit in front of the computer too long. Limit time to 1 hour a day, balancing it with physical activity.
• Cognition and General Knowledge: They are able to manipulate things that they could not have outside the physical world. Use open ended software, do not drill and test them. 
• Approaches Toward Learning: They are a good way to learn and reveal hidden strengths as well as a good way to assess. 

What Research Says about Technology in Child Development:

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.

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5 Effective ways for Children to use technology:

1. Make and display a graph: physical graph with  actual objects that are meaningful( collect info, fav. colors, how they traveled to school) 

2. Explore with digital tools: explore things with a new perspective ( ex: use magnifying glasses, pictures off line etc. save so children can refer back to them)

3. Tell a story to create pictures and words: make one on the computer

4. Write, record, and revisit: take pictures that you have taken along the way and turning them into a book; power point, online, have them write captions, drawings etc. 

5. Share and document Learning: Make sure they you send different pictures in the books home with the kids so they can talk with parents about it, enhancing communication. 

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