tirsdag 15. februar 2011

ICT - a challenge for education?

A kindergarten should be a learning organization, and able to meet new demands and challenges. Kindergarten can not obt out of the digital tools that have become part of the society the children live in. Kindergarten must ensure that the children get support for their curiosity and desire to learn even in the digital area.

An important prerequisite for this is that the staff can use digital tools and give children challenges in line with their knowledge and skills. Lack of expertise and what views the adults have in ICT will determind whether children will be able to use digital tools on an educationel manner in kindergarten.

Pc can, with the right programs, be a good tool to develop skills in children with learning problems, not least because it is a very patient teacher! One can use the computer as an aid to crack the read/write code, since the pc have a natural interence between upper and lower case. I have seen children struggeling to write with pencil, doing much better on the computer. pc vs writing (Trageton)

we have all different views of pc, but it is probably few who are indiffrent. some belive that computers will make children anti-social and threaten their playful and creative abilities. I have found that children use computers as a toy, jointly explore and learn from each other, they talk together and through drawing, animation, audio and video programs receive the opportunity to develop and master other form of expression. Use of computers can become an extension at play and experessive posibilities.
ICT a challange for education?
This video inicates one way how to learn to count to 5:

tirsdag 8. februar 2011

ICT in kindergarten

According to a curriculum from the Norwegian Goverment of knowledge Affairs, every kindergarten i Norway is suppost to use ICT. It says that children in the kindergaten should experience digtal tools as a source to play, communication and collecting knowledge. In this curriculum there are a lot of examples and ideas of how digital tools can supply the kindergartens work and support the childrens development.
Curriculum/Temahefte

My experiance is that the parents often feel that the children get enough of pc games at home. But I think it ICT in kindergarten is not just about gaming all the time. It is about educational use. This means development of qualifications as confidence, cooperation and accontability. This is qualifictions we need in the coming generations. Maybe we are not good enough to tell the parent what ICT in kintergarten is about, and show them what their children can learn when they use digital tools.

Digital tools in kindergarten can be: computer, color printer, scanner, camera, camcorder, educationel games and internet. Children learn through interaction with others, and to use a computer along with others will make them learn from each other, playing, discussing and trying their way to work things out. This will also be a form of socailization.
YouTybe video of writing to reading:

søndag 6. februar 2011

My first blog

This is my first blog, and I have to write it in english, very exciting! I am not very good in english so there might be some wrong spelling, but I will try my best!

This blog will be about ICT in kindergarten and the challenges and influece ICT have on social, culture and education.