Utilizing Technology in the Classroom for Students and

Teachers

Presented by Candy Blackman, Jenavieve Wilner, Brea Desautel, Amber Moon, and Cameron LeBret

As a teacher how can you incorporate technology into all areas of your classroom?For

your students?

And for

you?

ActivityIn small groups, please try out some of these amazing, kid-friendly technologies that could be found in an ECE classroom. Have Fun!

As a teacher you have many tools at your disposal:Ways it helps students:

Keeps them tech savvy

Engages them in a way you can’t

Covers more areas than any one person

Encourages problem-solving, investigating, eye-hand coordination, independence

Helps connect them to the past

Ways it can help you:

Communicate with families, students, coworkers, and specialists

Organize planning, documentation, and paperwork

Create portfolios

Expands teaching topics

Can cut out prep work

Teaching Strategies Gold - Tools For teachershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8wiI7DvG_A

helps assess children on a daily basis

gives the ability to take pictures and document on one app

can quickly and easily document child's actions as they do it

all online

online gives tools for lesson plans and strategies in the classroom

Teaching Language through technologyTransforms lessons into exciting games

Encourages correct pronunciations

Can aid non-verbal children

Can easily expose children to new languages

Can be utilized for at home practice

Examples

Alphabets App

Chinese Skill App

Books on audio tape

Translators

Rosetta Stone

Teaching REading and Writing Through TechnologyReading:

Tablets and laptops can be used to read stories from and have stories be read to children

Apps and games can teach letter recognition and word learning

Tikatok StorySpark, Tales2Go, TouchyBooks, and MeeGenius are a few great apps to help children begin reading

Tape recorders, books on tape, and whiteboards are other technologies that may be used to teach reading to children

Writing:

Tablets, whiteboards, Smartpens, and word processors are some of a few technologies that help children learn to write

Apps like Reading Rocket, Writing Prompts for Kids, and Bogga Alphabet are just a few apps that help children learn new letters and words

Lined paper, pencil grips, and letter blocks are other less modern technologies to promote writing

Teaching Science and Math Through Technology Science:

Teach lessons using games, apps, and videos

Apps and games can teach experimental thoughts and ideas

Apps such as Sea Life, the NASA app, Gazziliscience are great apps that teach about different science topics

telescopes, microscopes, barometers, thermometers, and many more tools are also great technologies for children to learn science with!

Math:

Math problems, strategies, and concepts taught using apps, games, videos, and walkthroughs

Apps and games teach children the concepts that are not as easy when taught by teacher

Great apps include: Kids Math, Counting Caterpillar, Crazy Time Tables, and many many more

Calculators, laptops, Wolfram, blocks, and rules are just some of the different technologies that may be utilized to better understand math!

ABC Mouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFcZX8Wr87Q

● designed for ages 2-6

● virtual field trips

● categories of: reading, math, arts & color, music & songs, library, puzzles, games, and the world around us.

● six levels of difficulty: two preschool, two pre-k, and two kindergarten.

iTracehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klHB8QV-vAg

prompts children with letters that they can trace after being shown by the program.

can do: letters, numbers, words.

completed letters give the students examples of a word that starts with it.

completed words give a picture of what that word is.

completed numbers gives a picture of an object in that amount.

funbrain http://www.funbrain.com/

math, reading, playground and just for fun.

has a teacher page with a curriculum guide as well as teaching resources.

has a parent page with printable activities, message board as well as fun and entertainment ideas for kids.

Don’t forget about old technologyThe more kids know

about how something works, the better they are at creating their own. They can see the flaws and are inspired to improve.

In conclusion: As a teacher, how can you incorporate technology into all areas of your classroom?

Use teacher approved, developmentally appropriate apps

Provide a large variety of old and new devices/machines

Tie it into all learning areas

Make it part of the classroom community

Allow both independent investigations as well as collaborative work