Digi kids Snapshot no.1 - Integrating Technology in the Early Years Classroom

A series of Snapshots is being developed around the experience and practice of teachers in the Digi Kids program. The first in the series looks at Lynda Page’s work on Integrating Technology in the Early Years Classroom.  A teacher for more than 20 years, Lynda works at Coolum Beach State School, in Queensland. She has been a keen participant in the Digi Kids program, which is co-ordinated by Hanan Harrison. In developing the Snapshot, she worked with Keith Redman, Editor of E-News and this Snapshot series.

The new Snapshot describes how, during 2007, Lynda worked with Early Years children to develop individual Home Readers – where each of the 4 and 5 year-olds took a series of digital photos at home and then incorporated them in a laminated book, together with text that they provided and later used as reading material. This work led further, to the development of E-Books, where the children again took photos but built them into Powerpoint presentations about events, classroom activities and excursions. To download the Snapshot and read more of Lynda’s remarkable story, click the link below.