The document discusses the evolution and current state of preschool teacher education, emphasizing the need for educational technology to fulfill its potential in enhancing learning experiences. It highlights the significant number of preschools and early childhood education facilities in India and the necessity for learners to actively engage in content creation rather than passive consumption. Additionally, it provides demographic data on the child population in India and the role of technology in supporting education in the country.

1. Preschool teacher education:
Why it’s time for educational technology
to live up to the promise
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4. A 19th century vision of the year 2000

5. The History of the Future of Education
– Audrey Watters, hackeducation.com (Feb 2015)
‘The Push-Button School of Tomorrow’ (from 1958)

6. Popular Science
(1961)

7. Early visions from Silicon Valley of the personal
computer in the classroom (1982)

9. The ‘2004 home computer’ in 1954

10. The ‘home computer’ in 2014

13. Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs

14. Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs

18. Virtual life is real life

22. Low cost ‘phablets’

23. The global story
Source: Global Mobile Economy Report 2015

24. Source: Global Mobile Economy Report 2015

28. • 2nd highest ownership globally
• Fastest growing in Asia-Pac
• Most addicted users globally

33. (2015)

36. www.busybeesasia.com
Case study: Preschool teacher
education in India

37. Media-rich content

38. • Facilitators are experts but
new content comes thick
and fast
• Learners need to be
encouraged to share
materials they find
• Acting as to

39. • Learning is , not
consumption.
• Knowledge is not something a
learner absorbs, but
something a learner creates

40. • Learning is

43. What I used to think, what I think now, and
how I will do things differently in the future

45. Uttar Pradesh
Bihar
Maharastra
Madhya Pradesh
West Bengal
Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
Rajasthan
Karnataka
Gujarat
Orissa
Kerala
Assam
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Iran
Vietnam
Philippines
Ethiopia
Zaire
Thailand
Myanmar
Tanzania
Sudan
Canada
Iraq
Child population in
millions
Population: 1.21 billion Children 0-6 yrs:158.8 million (13.1%)
0-18 yrs: 380 million (37%)
Child populations in Indian states cf. nation states
Source: Census, 2011
20 20 40 604060 0

46. Source: flickr.com/photos/photojon/483113931
There are 3 lakh standalone private pre-schools in India
employing around 15 lakh teachers and enrolling 1.5
crore students
The demographic
dividend

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Hobart, Tasmania, 7 Dec 15
There are 1.6 crore anganwadis; state-run pre-schools,
primarily child care centres, attending to basic nutrition
and healthcare that employ 3.2 crore

48. Technology as an enabler:

50. Q&
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