This session will share ideas and tools for using technology effectively with young learners under 8 years old. It will discuss selecting appropriate technological resources, managing both children and tools, and strategies for making technology-enhanced learning fun. A variety of online resources and tools will be presented that can be used to create engaging projects, enable collaboration, and develop students' skills without having technology be the main focus. Teachers are encouraged to provide structure, clear expectations, and support for students when using technology.

1. Tech for Tots Using Technologies to Enhance Early Learning Gail Lovely [email_address]

2. 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.

3. Why are you here? http://snappoll.com/poll/358253.php (or use: http://moourl.com/yhere )

4. Technology in the Classroom

5. So, have things changed?

6. http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/microland.php http://awurl.com/B0nb5TdPm

7. 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

8. What’s Our Role? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMsT4qNA-c

9. Our Responsibility From toy to tool

10. 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>.

11. 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.

12. Student Learning Resources

13. Sites for Students MUST be: Uncluttered Curriculum or Learning-rich Interactive Engaging Child-friendly

14. Finding links is the easy part... But can be time consuming!

15. Saving time, and Sanity Start with a few go-to sites

16. iBoard http://newserver.iboard.co.uk/player/

17. Read Write Think http://www.readwritethink.org/

18. Math Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

19. Gather a Collection or two http://simplybox.com/public/?id=22915

20. Tools for Creating Important for students to create, produce, develop, not just be consumers.

21. Stories and More Storybird http://storybird.com

22. Stories and More Kerpoof http://www.kerpoof.com/

23. “ Offline” Tools too Photostory Word Processing Presentation Software 2Simple Software Fablevision Software

24. Projects

25. Purposeful interactions with others Teach more than “curriculum” but must teach “curriculum” too!

26. Collaboration Write, draw and learn together

27. Shared and Collaborative Writing real time Whiteboards http://www.twiddla.com/474476 Writing Pads http://glovely.titanpad.com/3 (password: letmein )

28. Shared and Collaborative Writing delayed (asynchronous) Stixy http://www.stixy.com/guest/102984 (password is letmein) Refresh to see posts by others.

29. Shared and Collaborative Writing delayed (asynchronous) Blogs Writer and commenter Classblogmeister Kidblog Wikis “ experts” and editors Wikispaces

30. Spoken Word, Shared VoiceThread http://voicethread.com/share/1665090/ http://voicethread.com/share/336502/ Audio Editing Audacity (downloaded free tool) Myna (online free tool)

31. Touchscreen and Handheld Game changers!

32. One Sample Project Poddy Training iPod Touch in Little Hands Pictures used with permission

33. One Sample Project Poddy Training Applications they use: http://myap.ps/ecctech

34. Teacher Tools and Resources

35. Tools for Managing Visioning Planning Implementing

36. Visioning What’s Possible Tech Integration Matrices Florida Arizona Planning Documents Thinkfinity Document My Document

37. Managing it All… Label EVERYTHING.

38. Managing... but accounting for differences

39. Plan for Differentiation The Differentiator http://www.byrdseed.com/differentiator/

40. Fair Doesn’t Mean Same

41. Timers Kitchen Timers http://minutesplease.com/ http://www.online-stopwatch.com/eggtimer-countdown/full-screen/

42. Tools... Who owns them?

43. Provide choices Not what is learned, but how it is learned and how students will show you what they know...

44. Teacher Tools Access to a VARIETY of Web Resources SimplyBox example Internet Buttons example Bridges example Website Yola example

45. Teacher Tools Glogster http://edu.glogster.com/ Almost Instant Centers Access to sites So much more...

46. Teacher Tools Collect work samples, ideas, responses from students who can’t read or write

47. Managing it All… Clearly define your expectations - both process AND product.

48. Rubrics Expectations up front – no tricks! http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/flashlight/rubrics.htm

49. 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!

50. Working together

51. 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.

52. 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

53. Shift and Return….

54. Bottom Line...

55. Thank you! Gail Lovely Independent educator [email_address] Online CV: http://LovelyLearning.com Twitter: glovely It’s all about them.

56. 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