This document discusses using technology to enhance early childhood education. It provides general guidelines that technology should be developmentally appropriate, used to supplement hands-on learning, and engage multiple senses. The document also discusses how technology can enhance language development by encouraging interaction and longer, more complex speech. Technology can also enhance literacy by allowing children to compose and revise digitally without motor challenges and see that their written creations carry meaning. Specific programs like Clifford's Interactive Storybooks and Help Zac Write Letter are recommended for developing phonemic awareness and understanding print.

1. Teaching Young
Children With
Technolgogy
Kamrie Littlefield
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2. How to Successfully Integrate Technology:
General Guidelines
For effective use in ECE:
 When selecting technology it
is important to choose
material that is
Developmentally Appropriate.
 Technology should be used in
addition to hands-on learning.
 Technology should involve
many senses and include
sound, music, and voice.
-“Early Connections”
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3. Enhancing Language and Literacy Development
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-”Technology in Early Childhood Education:
Finding the Balance”

4. Technology Enhances Language
 When technology in a classroom is
set up to encourage interaction,
language development increases.
 Computer play encourages longer,
more complex speech and
development of fluency.
 Children tend to narrate what they are doing as they
draw pictures or move objects around on the screen -
thus, allowing practice for the development of language.
-”Technology in Early Childhood Education:
Finding the Balance”
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5. Technology Enhances Literacy
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 Writing on a computer allows
children to compose and
revise text without being
distracted by the fine motor
aspects of letter formation.
 Telling a story digitally
children increase their
understanding that print
carries a message and they
will love to see their type-
written creations.
-”Technology in Early Childhood Education:
Finding the Balance”

6. Programs to Use With Young
Children
Clifford’s Interactive Storybooks
 Activities found at
http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/index.htm
provide many opportunities for
children to increase and practice
skills pertaining to phonemic
awareness.
 Great for a technology center
activity!

7. Programs to Use With Young
Children
Help Zac Write Letter
 This activity found at
http://www.starfall.com/n/holida
http://www.starfall.com/n/holid
capitalizes on using
technology to help children
focus on the writing process.
 Helps children understand
forms and functions of print
(letter writing) and syntactical
rules.