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The Appropriate and Effective Use of Technology in Early Childhood Programs ECS National Forum #ecs2012 Warren Buckleitner
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The Appropriate and Effective Use
of Technology in Early Childhood Programs
ECS National Forum #ecs2012
Warren Buckleitner
Agenda (4:05 - 4:55)
• Questions
• NAEYC position statement
• Implementation
• Apps as materials
• The opportunity
• Q/A
What comments or questions do you have
about technology implementation for P-3?
Name/Affiliation appreciated (for my book)
DisclaimerI don’t work for any technology company
I don’t represent NAEYC (I was one of many advisors)
I don’t represent the New York Times
I’m writing a book “Technology Enhanced Learning for Young Children” (Pearson, due next year)
I am the Editor of Children’s Technology Review, I also make money conducting inservice for schools.
I consider myself to be a “eclectic constructivist”
I have my own model for “appropriate use.”
Mine is the correct model.
• One of six kids (#4) live in NJ. Married, two daughters.
• BS Elem. Ed., Central Michigan University; MA Human Development, Pacific Oaks; Ph.D., Ed Psych, Michigan State University; Dissertation on engagement & IM design (search on “dissertation buckleitner”)
• Editor/Founder of Children’s Technology Review
• Sr. Consultant, High/Scope Foundation (‘83-’93)
• Teacher. Preschool, 4th & 6th grades
• Reviewer. CTR, Scholastic Parent & Child, New York Times. Seehttp://childrenstech.com/about/disclosures
• Prize coordinator, BolognaRagazzi Digital & KAPI http://childrenstech.com/files/2011/05/g3-‐1.pdf
Contact: [email protected] Twitter: @dustormagic @childtech Copyright 2012 Children’s Technology Review
This isn’t about me.
This isn’t about you.
It is about them.
NAEYCTechnology Position Statement• 2 years• Second statement (’96)
• Questions
• NAEYC position statement
• Implementation
• Apps as materials
• The opportunity
• Q/A
http://www.naeyc.org/content/technology-and-young-children
NAEYC Position Statement
Implementation
• Questions
• NAEYC position statement
• Implementation
• Apps as materials
• The opportunity
• Q/A
Learning theory(DAP)
Technology
My Approach to Tech Enhanced Learning
• Guided by child development and the ideals of the position statement
• Is a slave to no company, consultant or expert• Open access to a variety of platforms (a slave to• Use powerful, open-ended hardware and software
selected by quality and matched to the learning• Builds on a program’s existing strengths.• Empowers the teacher first, the administrator second• Puts the child at the center• Doesn’t require a lot of inservice
AccessBalanceSupport
ABS
Using Technology to Support Active Learning
The ABS Model for Digital Literacy
AccessBalanceSupport
ABS
Using Technology to Support Active Learning
The ABS Model for Digital Literacy
Access
ABS
Using Technology to Support Active LearningThe ABS Model for Digital Literacy
Video gamesProgramming languagesGoogleWi-Fi
Sergey Brin’s early access
Balance
ABS
Using Technology to Support Active LearningThe ABS Model for Digital Literacy
Like a healthy diet. Young children learn best by active manipulation with concrete materials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maslow%27s_Hierarchy_of_Needs.svg
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Support
ABS
Using Technology to Support Active LearningThe ABS Model for Digital Literacy
• introduce new ideas and apps
• a human to make sure it works for you
Image from http://www.auto-repair-help.com/automotive_maintenance/brake_system.php
Anti-lock Braking System or ABS
ABS keeps your wheels moving forward over a
hazardous paths. It can keep you out of
the ditch.
The Multi-Touch Model
5 mobile devices in once classroom
1 laptop
Wi-Fi
Multi-Touch Preschool
• Phase 1: One iPad, some free apps, play with the camera.
• Phase 2: Five color-coded iPads (or iTouches) hanging in each area, each synched and managed by one computer; 70 *quality* apps in your cloud.
• Phase 3: All of phase 2, more apps, plus a home sync connection, assessment and use professional development; devices going home on weekends.
Math Area
Music Area
Language AreaScience Area
$660
$660
(optional)
Teacher’s MacBook Pro
Notes: a) Wireless Internet access in the classroom is required and not include in price.b) An existing computer (Windows or Mac) could substitute for the teacher’s MacBook. c) iPad price includes protective case.
$1000
$660
$660
$660
Art Area
n Router ($60)
$4360/classroom
Apple’s new $US1 billion data centre is one of the largest in the world. Today’s web broadcast—which uses the HTTP Live Streaming format and will be only available for Mac OS X and iOS devices—will require a titanic processing and data transfer effort to serve hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections at different video qualities. [Cult of Mac]
What the cloud actually looks like
Diana Adams, Minot ND Head Start
Interactive Media as Materials
• Questions
• NAEYC position statement
• Implementation
• Apps as materials
• The opportunity
• Q/A
Writing
Letter Writer: OceansBuilds writing, upper case letters, letter recognition, fine motor skills. Barking Dog Interactive. http://barkingdoginteractive.com/ $.99. Ages 3-7.
Montessori Crosswords Builds spelling, phonics, reading, writing, language, upper and lower case. L’Escapadou. http://lescapadou.com $3.99. Ages 3-up.
Decoding
B.O.B. Books by http://learningtouch.com
MusicABC Music Builds letter and word recognition, music. Peapod Labs. www.peapodlabs.com $2.99. Ages 3-up.
Singing Fingers Builds art, music, pitch, creativity. Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab . http://llk.media.mit.edu/ $free. Ages 5-up.
Math & Logic
Park MathChildren can nurture their mathematical roots in this playground full of things to count, weight, compare and classify. For example, in Swing, children count as high as 50 as a rabbit swings. You can either watch, or "push" the rabbit with your fingertip. In Apple Tree, children start thinking about subtracting, as apples fall from a tree). There are two levels, for up to first grade. Builds math, counting, quantities, adding, subtraction, numerals. Duck Duck Moose Design. www.duckduckmoosedesign.com $1.99. Ages 3-up.
Sound Shaker Builds music, scales, causality, logic, fine motor skills. zinc Roe Design. www.zincroe.com $1.99. Ages 3-5.
Art/Creativity
Drawing Pad (iPad)Turn your iPad into a smart easel with this powerful, easy-to-use drawing experience. Because the tools appear in a drawer on the side of the screen, you can pull them out or put them away, as needed; and they flip by simply rotating the iPad. Builds drawing, art, creativity.. Darren Murtha Design. www.touchscreenpreschoolgames.com $1.99. Ages 2-12.
Melodia
Spatial Relations
eBooksThree Little Pigs and the Secret of a Popup Book Builds . GameCollege, 3-up
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree
Eileen Christelow. Christerlow serves at the narrator. Builds reading, counting. Oceanhouse Media. www.oceanhousemedia.com $2.99. Ages 3-5.
Moo Baa La La La! Builds language. Loud Crow Interactive. $3. Ages 2-5.
Music
Vintage Toy Piano Builds . Holderness Media, Inc.. www.HoldernessMedia.com $0.99. Ages .
Magic PianoOne of the best musical apps we've reviewed to dateInspired by pianist Lang Lang, Magic Piano turns your iPad into a zany piano keyboard. was conceived and designed exclusively for the iPad. Builds music, rhythm. Smule, Inc.. www.smule.com $.99. Ages 4-up.
Balance
Big Grips Frame for iPad, KEM Ventures, Inc.www.biggrips.com $35.
Elements of Quality
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Easy to u
se
Educa,onal
Entertaining
Value
Features
Makes you feel powerful quickly -‐-‐ starts quickly, responsive, reversible, Minimum User Competency (MUC) is below child’s developmental level, can jump around between pages, over the shoulder help, minimal or no instruc,ons
You walk away with something valuable; a skill or competence you didn’t have when you came to the experience.
•language•math/logic•art/music•science•social •geography
Challenging, novel, full of discoveries, social
Preferences let you customize. If it is free, you can lower your expecta,ons.
What does it do vs. how much does it cost?
The opportunity
• Questions
• NAEYC position statement
• Implementation
• Apps as materials
• The opportunity
• Q/A
What do we know?
1. Tablets are here to stay
2. Apple iOS is way ahead (competitors are emerging)
3. Moore’s Law isn’t finished
4. Every theory has a champion in technology
5. Bad pedagogy kills good technology (aka “appcrap”)
6. Educational systems are numb to change as a result of 30 years of “new”
BehaviorismTestingPhonicsTop down
ConstructivismPortfolios
Whole LanguageBottom up
Every theory finds a champion in technology
|----- ~15 - 20 years -----|
Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896-1934)
Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
Maria Montessori (1870-1952) BF Skinner
(1904-1990)
View it from a theoretical framework: What would each say about an iPad?
Nobody will uninvent the iPad
What do we know?
iPad Effect
“The iPad is the computer we always wanted.” Ann McCormick, Founder, The Learning Company
“Pillars” of the iPad1. Multi-touch screen: 11 simultaneous inputs, oleophobic surface 2. 10 hour batteries3. Internet4. ~23,000 apps for children (and an army of programmers)5. Clear, stereo speakers6. Clear screen7. Gyro and accelerometer, for AI8. Oleophobic screen9. Two cameras (eyes) and microphone (ears)10. Affordable and durable: $500, no moving parts
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/smalltalk/Kay__A_Personal_Computer_For_Children
_Of_All_Ages_Aug72.pdf
Google: “dynabook alan kay”
Skinner’s Teaching Machine (1950s)
http://www.uni-graz.at/people/paechter/
Tachistoscope
http://www.yorku.ca/ycom/gazette/past/archive/2000/022300/current/facial.jpg
Microsoft Office
Hyperstudio
2000 2005
CD-ROM
Living Books
Reader Rabbit
Decline of Educational Software
IMing
MMPGs
TVs become HDTVsPS3Xbox 360Nintendo Wii
FLY PenComputer
LeapPad
WordStar Word PerfectBank Street WriterMindstorms/LOGO
Pokémon
Internet
Speech to textVoice RecognitionSoliloquy Reader
Moore’s Law Meets Literacy — Some Key Events
Flash/Starfall.com
Read180
Accelerated Reader
LeapsterPixter
ECHO Speech synthesizer
http://www.childrenssoftware.com/articles/history.tech.literacy.htmlSource: Children’s Technology Review database -- see complete references at
2008 2009 2011
Netbooks
iPod TouchiPhoneNintendo DSiTag/Tag JrKindle
Intel ClassMate
iPad
Dustin Heuston forms WICAT
The View from Moore’s Law
Moore’s Law isn’t finished
PCMAG
Carl Sagan“We live in an extraordinary age. These are times of stunning changes in social organization, economic well-being, moral and ethical precepts, philosophical and religious perspectives, and human self-knowledge, as well as in our understanding of that vast universe in which we are imbedded like a grain of sand in a cosmic ocean….
Had we been born fifty years earlier, we could have wondered, pondered, speculated about these issues, but we could have done nothing about them. Had we been born fifty years later, the answers would, I think, already have been in. Our children will have been taught the answers before most of them will have had the opportunity to even formulate the questions. By far the most exciting, satisfying and exhilarating time to be alive is the time in which we pass from ignorance to knowledge on these fundamental issues; the age where we begin in wonder and end in understanding. In all of the four-billion-year history of the human family, there is only one generation privileged to live through that unique transitional moment: that generation is ours.” (Sagan died in 1996, much too young). http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/165217
