Five effective ways for young children to use technology

1) make & display a graph:
Build a physical graph with objects, such as shoes with and without laces, or boxes from favourite breakfast cereals.
Then use a graphing program or spreadsheet on the computer to make the same information into a two-dimensional graph.

2) Explore with digital tools
Investigate the familiar world from new perspectives.
Close-up photos and magnified images from a digital microscope or camera engage children’s curiosity and encourage them to take a closer look at common objects transformed through magnification.

3) Tell a story in pictures & words
Create illustrations on-screen with art software, or paint or draw pictures to scan into the computer. Software that lets children combine pictures with their recorded voices telling the stories, or that uses computerized voices to read back typed stories, adds to the fun and celebrates children’s creativity.

4) Write, record, and revisit
put together a digital record of a special activity or field trip. Children can return to the experience by viewing digital photographs, and then share their memories by writing or dictating captions, making drawings, or recording stories. The final projects can be viewed both on-screen and as a book.

5) Share document learning
Chronicle learning in progress with digital photos of skits, art or science projects, or geometric patterns or models that children construct.

Introduction

Introduction

When the word Technology appears, what does it really tell us? Gosh! The word itself seems to convey a deep meaning! Anyways, let’s not get overly worked-up in trying to explain the term “Technology” in simple words and let see if we can explain it by observing the world around us. What do you see? Don’t you think that most of the appliances that we use on a daily basis are a part of what we commonly refer to as technology and technological achievements? Of course they are!

Nearly everything we see and observe around us is linked to technology one way or another. For instance, when home-makers carry out their daily chores such as cooking, washing clothes, gardening, and etc, notice the appliances they are using? Like the washing machines, microwaves, refrigerators, cake makers, ovens and lots more are only a small part of our of massive technological inventions. There are a great deal more, but you get the picture.

OK guys, let’s get the gist of this matter clarified in a more precise manner. Using common words, technology is the means by which all these devices are created for the convenience of all humanity. These inventions are not only tools of convenience for us humans, but some are also a great source of information and a great tool for the education of our children.