UWW310 Technology & Early Childhood

This article questions whether the abundance and easy access to technology is actually reducing children's capacities for creativity. How much technology is too much technology for children?

I love this article and was going to post it myself, but you beat me to it! I love the way it explains the importance of open-ended play and the inability for children to use their imaginations with guided apps.

Is the development of social skills declining because of technology?

This is one of the most engaging and fun educational math site that I've come across as it closely resembles a video game. This program has the perfect balance of engaging elements for students and feedback tools for teachers. It is for grades 1-8. Prodigy ensures that each students succeeds at their own pace using a diagnostic test to place students in the correct grade, embedded assessments, and automatic differentiation.

I saw some of the fourth grade boys in my school playing this and thought it was a restricted game! I love that they love it!

Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

I have learned to code with Kahn!

An anti technology slant with some statistics, published by commercialfreechildhood.org

Did you know: that on any given day, 64% of babies between 1 and 2 watch TV and videos for an average of slightly over 2 hours; that in 2011 there were 3 million downloads just of Fisher Price apps fo

Are we allowing our young children too much screen time? This website gives teacher informative statistics about controlling screen time and exposing children to technology, both negative and positive effects.

joint position statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College for children birth to 8. It was adopted in January of 2012

I like how they state that technology is here to stay, so they are embracing it and giving their position on how it should be used in early childhood.

This document was published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children andthe Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College as a means to provide guidance to those working in early childhood education programs in the selection and use of technology and interactive media and could also be useful as a guide for families in their homes.

I loved this line from the article, "technology is just a tool. It shouldn't be used in classrooms or child care centers because it's cool, but because teachers can do activities that support the healthy development of children."

Offers tips on using technology with infants and toddlers and explains the differences between passive screen time and active teaching using technology

© National Association for the Education of Young Children gives a statement on the relationship between technology and an ECE classroom. Technology is here to stay, so they give great tips on how to incorporate them appropriately and in helpful ways.

The NAEYC has recommendations for educators on the use of technology in early childhood. This site has effective ways and recommended activities to use technology in the education of young children.

This article highlights the issues with curriculum and the importance of emergent curriculum. Teachers are so often wrapped up in producing a curriculum that they don't realize how important it is to base the curriculum on the development and interests of the children. Their ideas and questions can add more meaning behind the activities that they are engaging in. Often times I see teachers doing an activity just to do it instead of doing the activity to teach the children something that they are interested in.

Facts about children's literacy. We need to work towards enabling more children to read.

Research shows that ebooks continue to help children's reading skills demonstrating the importance of new programs to help keep them involved and interested in reading.

Research that shows how more young boys would be willing to read in ebook form rather than paperback.

The importance of ebooks and how children would benefit from greater access to them. More children read now because of ebooks but wish they had more options.

Demonstrates the importance of reading to children. It's time to make children more interested in reading than ever before!

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Welcome to abcteach. Explore teaching materials, free printable worksheets, reading comprehension, SMART Board lessons, and more. They have an amazing amount of worksheets for so many different levels and subjects.

What Prepdog.org provides: * Auto-graded quick assessment for Common Core State Standards in K - 6 * Auto-grade quick assessment for RIT bands grades 2 - 8 * Video tutorials * Worksheets * Videos for teachers and students * Photo Gallery - for education use only

Readtheory.org is a website that helps students in reading and comprehension. Teachers and students can also track progress.

Over the past few weeks, during a trip through England and the United States, I had the opportunity to visit several Jewish and private day schools. While every school has its strengths and weaknesses, I began to see a pattern with educational technology integration. Interesting article