Teaching Our Digital Kids Hub
The Teaching our Digital Kids Hub is aimed at exploring innovative practices in the use of technology, for early childhood educators. The Hub will provide a professional learning opportunity, involving 5 days over 12 months, where participants will explore hands-on strategies, designed to integrate technology into a play-based curriculum, as well as strategies for emergent readers and writers.
Participants will not need any prior knowledge of computers, just an interest in exploring ways of utilising technology to motivate and challenge students in all aspects of the curriculum. The program is suitable for teachers of students from four to eight years old, and is based on our previously successful program KidSmart, which has been running since 2000.
If you are interested in participating in the new ANSN Hub, you can register an expression of interest, by phoning Hanan Harrison on 0407 464 472 or emailing her at hanan.harrison@ansn.edu.au.
Download more information about the Teaching Our Digital Kids Hub here.
Launch of Teaching our Digi Kids
In a launch presentation that encompassed the IBM-sponsored Kidsmart program and the publication by ANSN of Hanan Harrison’s Teaching our Digi Kids book (with IBM support), Miranda Scarff, from Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM spoke enthusiastically about Hanan’s work and the impact that it is having across Australia. In discussing the book, she focussed particularly on its structure, with each chapter offering:
- topic introduction;
- reflection activities – getting you thinking;
- teacher snapshots – hear from colleagues;
- learning stories – working examples; and
- sample lesson ideas – what you can consider.
Developing Wonderful Readers - Workshop for Early Years Educators
First words must mean something to a child. First words must have an intense meaning for a child. They must be part of his being
Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1963)
Bee Bots – Robotics for Young Learners
Winner of the “2006 Education Resources Award” primary ICT category.
1 day hands-on workshop where participants:
- Play and explore Bee Bots
- Make resources for future learning experiences that integrate Bee Bots with their curriculum
- Take back to school collective ideas and strategies for implementing Bee Bots as well as their very own Bee Bot (1 per participant) valued at rrp $88
KidSmart Snapshots - Set of 11 printed brochures
The ANSN and IBM as partners have documented and produced 11 snapshotsthat showcase early childhood teachers and their journeys inimplementing technology with a play-based curriculum. These snapshotsare designed to celebrate and share the cumulative learning of teacherswho have explored and developed innovative teaching practices throughtechnology integration, based on their participation in the IBMKidSmart project.
KidSmart Snapshots - Digital Delivery in PDF format
The ANSN and IBM as partners have documented and produced 11 snapshots that showcase early childhood teachers and their journeys in implementing technology with a play-based curriculum. These snapshots are designed to celebrate and share the cumulative learning of teachers who have explored and developed innovative teaching practices through technology integration, based on their participation in the IBM KidSmart project.
Kidsmart Early Learning Project CD-Rom
The Kidsmart packageThe IBM KIDSMART EARLY LEARNING PROGRAM Interactive CD - ROM has been designed to help early childhood teachers and students get the most out of the KidSmart Early Learning Program.
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