ECETECH

Article presents some of the reality of touchscreen with toddlers and preschoolers.

What will digital technology mean for early childhood development?

Free online PD opportunity. Info and links to many useful resources related to digital storytelling (check out their "sandbox" http://digitalstorytelling4kids.pbworks.com/w/page/47970976/Sandbox)

If you follow the link on this page to the article "Worlds Apart, One City, Two Libraries & Ten Years of Watching Inequality Grow" http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/fall2012/Neuman.pdf you will get a sense of what the authors learned during their 10 years of research and implications/recommendations related to closing the achievement gap/how it relates to technology use by children and families.

Great Ted Talk - Children teaching themselves - using computers

Interested in tipsheets/simple materials for parents/families of young children related to media diet. If others have good examples, would be great if you can bookmark/share them here with a mediadiet tag. Thanks!

A new app from the Fred Rogers Center to add to their growing line up of stellar apps that are pedagogically sound and a hit with the children!

From rethinking the educational process/Mass Customized Learning, providing examples such as using QR codes to individualize learning in K (video on how listed), data and information about the use of iPads in K/1st grade in Auburn schools and hearing middle school students tweeting about each of the sessions and sharing their perspective on what they have learned doing so-this event provided lots to think about. More information will continue to be added to the resource page.

Jennie Magiera's keynote session for Advantage 2012 was both inspiring and provocative-exciting! Learn more about the impromptu evening presentation with the Auburn Middle School Student tweeters at the Leveraging Learning iPad Institute in Auburn, ME on her blog, and her ideas and suggestions to move education forward, past integration to redefining the innovative classroom and how she is doing it...

Longitudinal study of brain development in early childhood.

Works well with any age level. Why not begin this pedagogical practice in the early years?

Technology in the lives of our children is here to stay. As a creator and developer, I am very pro technology. While there are many things to celebrate there are an equal number of things to be concerned with. My primary concerns are divided into 2 main areas: technology's impact on human to human interaction and the negative effects of shorter and shorter cycles of information, impacting our ability to focus our attention. Throughout of development cycle, we met with a number of parents. The number one thing everyone expressed was, wanting more time for themselves. Being a parent is exhausting and every one needs a break. What concerns me is the kinds of content, the kinds of experiences and fundamentally, the kinds of rhythms involved in those experiences. I don't want the digital baby sitter to over stimulate my kids or to weaken their ability to hold focus. Everything has a rhythm; every person, every moment, every place. As human beings, this is our primary relationship to our world and to each other. Providing parents with experiences that support their child's rhythm is key to the use of technology in the home. When seeking out digital content, I encourage parents to look for things that provide longer times of focus. Save the fun and flashy events for highly active time. Communicate to your child the quality of time as you make content available to them. its focus time - a movie, its fun time - a game, its quiet time - drawing. One of the things we've done with our digital book, is to provide a free downloadable coloring sheets. Every experience should not be digital. In fact, I believe strongly that facilitating the transition back to the analogue world is part of my responsibility as a digital content creator.

A great way for a child to be engaged and excited about writing. Students' books can be shared on classroom blogs, websites or the hyperlink can be emailed to parents.

Free for teachers. Helps children engage in their writing. Interactive workbooks that allow children to be empowered by creating their own book.