What is the need of Education technology, ICT at Early Childhood level? Technology in Enhancing Children creativity, ECE & Technology

1. Educational Technology in
Early Childhood Education
Dr.C.Karthik Deepa
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science And Higher Education for Women
Coimbatore
cherrydeepa@gmail.com
9976131831

2. Early Education

3. Early childhood
education (ECE)/Early Education
• Early childhood education (ECE) is a
branch of educational theory which
relates to the teaching of young children
up until the age of about eight, with a
particular focus on
developmental education, most notable
before the start of compulsory education.

4. Are Computers Developmentally
Appropriate?
• Most experts believe
computers are not
developmentally
appropriate for children
under the age of three
(Elkind, 1998; Haugland,
1999; NAEYC, 1996).

5. The developmental needs of
children
Concrete learners (Developmentally
within Piaget’s preoperational
stage)
– interested in using newly learned
symbolic representation
– Extremely active and mobile
– they need frequent changes in
learning modalities
– they want a variety of physical
experiences

6. Howard Gardner
– young children exhibit a diversity of
learning styles, and that the optimum
way for many children to learn is not
the traditional teacher-directed,
verbal approach (Gardner, 1987).
– different learning approaches
– larger diversity of children

7. What if there is no integration of
technology?
• If computers are not
fully integrated into the
overall curriculum,
they can actually
negatively impact
children’s creativity
(Haugland, 1982).

8. When nurse says have a look at
your baby?

14. The Neo-Gen Alphabet

16. Effect of technology among the people &
environments that surround young
children’s learning

17. Technologies offer new opportunities to
strengthen many aspects of ECE.

18. Support & interest for the development
& integration of ICT into education
policy, curriculum, and practice.

19. Appropriate use of Technology
Hardware

20. Devices & Software's

21. To integrate computers effectively,
these steps must occur:
• Create a support team
• appropriate software
• appropriate web sites
• computers that can run the software
selected, and easily upgraded
• adequate and periodic staff training
– use of computers
– integrating the computers into the curriculum
• Integrate computer resources in the
classroom.