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Tech for Tots Using Technologies to Enhance Early Learning Gail Lovely [email_address]
Using technologies with little learners requires patience, strategy, and excellent technological resources. This session will share management ideas, technological tools, and online resources that will make powerful learning with technology and children under 8 years old do-able and even fun! Selection of resources, management of tools AND tots, and some silly little tricks will all be included.
Why are you here? http://snappoll.com/poll/358253.php (or use:  http://moourl.com/yhere  )
Technology in the Classroom
So, have things changed?
http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/microland.php   http://awurl.com/B0nb5TdPm
The Hole in the Wall Project http://www.ted.com/speakers/sugata_mitra.html http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
What’s Our Role? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMsT4qNA-c
Our Responsibility From toy to tool
Our Responsibility &quot;Students will be—and to some extent already are—living in a world of online interactions for which they currently have few learning contexts or models,&quot; Will Richardson (p. 26) tells us:  Teaching students to contribute and collaborate online in ways that are both safe and appropriate requires instruction and modeling, not simply crossing our fingers and hoping for the best when they go home and do it on their own.” Scherer, Marge. &quot;Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Perspectives / The World at Our Fingertips.&quot;  ASCD Home . 25 Feb. 2009  <http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/The_World_at_Our_Fingertips.aspx>.
Our Responsibility Technologies in a balanced role Technology as the tool, media, source, not as the goal. Technology as one of the things we use, do, explore. Technology as an enabler  enabling communication, access and more.
Student Learning Resources
Sites for Students MUST be: Uncluttered Curriculum or Learning-rich Interactive Engaging Child-friendly
Finding links is the easy part... But can be time consuming!
Saving time, and Sanity Start with a few go-to sites
iBoard http://newserver.iboard.co.uk/player/
Read Write Think http://www.readwritethink.org/
Math Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
Gather a Collection or two http://simplybox.com/public/?id=22915
Tools for Creating  Important for students to create, produce, develop, not just be consumers.
Stories and More Storybird http://storybird.com
Stories and More Kerpoof http://www.kerpoof.com/
“ Offline” Tools too Photostory  Word Processing Presentation Software 2Simple Software Fablevision Software
Projects
Purposeful interactions with others Teach more than “curriculum” but must teach “curriculum” too!
Collaboration Write, draw and learn together
Shared and Collaborative Writing real time Whiteboards http://www.twiddla.com/474476 Writing Pads http://glovely.titanpad.com/3 (password: letmein )
Shared and Collaborative Writing delayed (asynchronous) Stixy http://www.stixy.com/guest/102984 (password is letmein) Refresh to see posts by others.
Shared and Collaborative Writing delayed (asynchronous) Blogs Writer and commenter Classblogmeister Kidblog Wikis “ experts” and editors Wikispaces
Spoken Word, Shared VoiceThread http://voicethread.com/share/1665090/ http://voicethread.com/share/336502/ Audio Editing Audacity (downloaded free tool) Myna  (online free tool)
Touchscreen and Handheld Game changers!
One Sample Project  Poddy Training iPod Touch in Little Hands Pictures used with permission
One Sample Project  Poddy Training Applications they use: http://myap.ps/ecctech
Teacher Tools and Resources
Tools for Managing Visioning Planning Implementing
Visioning What’s Possible Tech Integration Matrices Florida Arizona Planning Documents Thinkfinity Document My Document
Managing it All… Label EVERYTHING.
Managing...  but accounting for differences
Plan for Differentiation The Differentiator http://www.byrdseed.com/differentiator/
Fair Doesn’t Mean Same
Timers Kitchen Timers http://minutesplease.com/   http://www.online-stopwatch.com/eggtimer-countdown/full-screen/
Tools... Who owns them?
Provide choices Not what is learned, but how it is learned and how students will show you what they know...
Teacher Tools Access to a VARIETY of  Web Resources SimplyBox  example Internet Buttons  example Bridges  example Website Yola  example
Teacher Tools Glogster http://edu.glogster.com/ Almost Instant Centers Access to sites So much  more...
Teacher Tools Collect work samples, ideas, responses from students who can’t read or write
Managing it All… Clearly define your expectations - both process AND product.
Rubrics Expectations up front – no tricks! http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/flashlight/rubrics.htm
Rubrics “ A  rubric  is an explicit summary of the criteria for assessing a particular piece of student work, plus levels of potential achievement for each criterion.”  (source) But really RUBRICS are time-savers! Rubistar  is a GREAT time saver!
Working together
No touching classmates’ computers or technologies. Provide time to discuss and reward processes and also for sharing &quot;student discoveries&quot;. Expect and encourage students to help each other.
Turn Taking… Check list Sticks in a Cup Circle Chart Electronic name pickers http://classtools.net/main_area/template_loader.htm?fruit_machine   http://www.barryfunenglish.com/tools.php   http://www.superteachertools.com/classroom-tools/group-maker.php
Shift and Return….
Bottom Line...
Thank you! Gail Lovely Independent educator [email_address] Online CV:  http://LovelyLearning.com Twitter: glovely It’s all about them.
Credits Toy or Tool: Uploaded to Flickr on 2/13/2009 by Fuyoh! with cc attribution license  http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuyoh/3276837993/in/set-72157615701320920

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