Technology in the classroom has become very useful, but how can younger kids between the ages of 3 and 5 use it? Since most children that age can't read a portaportal wouldn't be useful unless an adult was there to guide then from site to site. So, how do you integrate technology into their learning?
Dr. Perry also answered questions about how to incorporate technology in the classroom for younger children. Video cameras and tape recorders in the classroom can be very positive and mind-expanding for young child... but like the previous blog they must be done at the right time. Technology should be used to enhance the curriculum and give children meaningful experiences. Say you were doing role playing in your preschool classroom and you wanted everyone in the class to be involved, you could show them a video of a news cast and then have each students play a different role from a hypothetical situation. Say a building is on fire and they need someone to put it out, a couple of children could pretend like they are stuck in the house while others could be the firefighters. Then the news crew could arrive, one child could pretend to interview the other using a tape recorder while another student films with a video camera. Then you could have news anchors that tells the rest of the class what happened. Children need real life experiences, and in this case technology would be great.
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