As a fan and enthusiastic user of IT in classes, I have just started a course: ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children's learning across the curriculum. It is a free course at www.coursera.org I will start recording some tools available online. Take a look at them and free your imagination to use them in your lessons.
I have joined ICT today. Am quite excited about learning new ideas which we can adopt in our preschool. I will also share some of our learnings over the next few weeks!
Just started an ICT course from Coursera. It has made me jump from one exciting resource link to another before I could even finish the first activity! Absolutely loving it! I look forward to testing some of the ideas with my 6 yr old who is quite excited about technology. And as a parent I feel good if that gadget time is put to good use.
I have also started the ICT course from Coursera. I'm willing to see all of your proposals on materials, web pages, programs, etc., and I'm hoping to share some ideas with you too.
Hi from me too, I enrolled also in this course and I hope it will help me with the better understanding of ICT. I hope we can share a lot of ideas and thoughts.
Hello to all! I have been absent from the field of primary education for some time and feel the need to update myself in new knowledge and new ideas, in such a fast paced world. I hope this course helps me!
Hi,
Our school is starting it's third week of Online curriculum, after the government has closed schools. Using Google Classroom has been interesting. Too much screen time for some pupils - headaches for my wife and I looking at screens without adequate breaks.
I am looking forward to the course.
Hello! I am glad to be here. I just have known this free course so I immediately enrolled. I am happy that I will be learning a lot especially in dealing with the 21st century learners. I need to enhance my skills in learning when and how to use and integrate ICT in the teaching-learning process!
This background summarises the evidence base from which the ICT capability's introduction, organising elements and learning continuum have been developed. It draws on recent international and national research, as well as initiatives and programs that focus on ICT across the curriculum.
This site has online interactive games for a range of curriculum learning areas (literacy, mathematics, holidays) for a range of different ages (k-grade5). Very engaging with a large variety of games and activities!
Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media.
Our class teachers use these resources with the tech coach (me!) very successfully as part of our digital citizenship curriculum. We also shared some of the ideas with parents at a recent training session.
An oldie, but a goodie! Scratch is a free tool designed to support the development of coding skills. Available in 40+ languages and aimed at students aged 8 and up. Students can program their own interactive stories, games, and animations - and share their creations with others in the online community.
My 5 year old daughter loves Scratch Jr. She had a tutorial from us initially, but was able to use the software independently very quickly, to her own delight.
I have used the computer version of Scratch with students in grades 3-6 (in Australia). My colleagues were amazed when students produced maze games where if the player bumped into the maze walls they were returned to the start - little did they know how easy it was once we got the hang of the coding. Great stuff.
Actually there is also a new curriculum for Scratch with worksheets:
http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/guide/download.html
It has also been translated into several languages.
This is a very helpful tool if you want to start introducing programming to a class. I have been using it now twice, and I am happy with the outcome. In particular the worksheets are so helpful and give you more time to support the individual child.
I have use code.org as an introduction before using scratch. It allows the children participate it in games involving angry birds, plants vs zombies, flappy birds and the disney frozen characters.
Repositorio Educativo de la Comunidad Educativa Española
Agrega 2 is an initiative developed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Red.es and Spain's regional governments. The federation of educational digital object repositories Agrega is a platform with nodes in all regional government education departments. The educational content which can be found therein is organised around the curriculum covering pre-university education and is prepared for downloading and direct use by the teaching staff and the students.
Coursera Course were we analyse examples from schools in different parts of the world, and bring professional teachers, headteachers and policymakers together to share their best ideas and inspiring stories. The materials in the course are based on studies carried out for the UNESCO Institute of IT in Education, Moscow.
Instructional Science promotes a deeper understanding of the nature, theory, and practice of the instructional process and resultant learning. Published papers represent a variety of perspectives from the learning sciences and cover learning by people of all ages, in all areas of the curriculum, and in informal and formal learning contexts.
My school is contemplating providing our Kindergarten with a classroom set of iPads, and I will certainly forward this article to our teachers as they begin to introduce iPad use into their curriculum.
This is a diigo group created as part of the MOOC "ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children's learning across the curriculum" (https://www.coursera.org/course/ictinprimary). You are encouraged to contribute, sharing additional resources (web pages, links to publications, ...).