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.
Work in 2009 with the national project: Integrating ICT pedagogy in School Community
Hanan Harrison (from an interview with Keith Redman, Editor of ANSN E-News)
Throughout 2009, ANSN national networker Hanan Harrison has been working in partnership with Education Queensland International on the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)-funded project Integrating ICT Pedagogy in School Community. Hanan was contracted to develop, deliver and evaluate a national project targeting teachers and school leaders in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as an integrating teaching tool.
Teaching our Digital Kids - Tasmania 2009
Professional learning opportunity in Tasmania 2009
The Australian National Schools Network is launching a new PD
opportunity for early childhood teachers focusing on making technology an
integral component within a play focus for teachers of prep - year 2
classrooms. The project is based on the learnings from the KidSmart
workshop which has been a national project since 2000 with ANSN and the IBM,
where prep/preschool teachers from rural or disadvantaged areas were supported
through a 12 month action learning PD model to focus on developing effective
pedagogical strategies for ICT implementation.
The Perth Digi Kids Workshop - Report by Helen Davey
The 2 day Digi-Kids workshop was enjoyed by all participants over the school holidays. Big thanks to Hanan Harrison and the ANSN (Australian National Schools Network) for presenting, as well as Mary Vajda from ECU for hosting the sessions. The participants certainly had a good time and came away with an enormous amount of open ended ideas to implement into their classroom next term. 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.
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 Snapshot 3 - Evanston
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 Snapshot No 9 - Moorditj Noongar Community School WA
Moorditj - a Noongar word for "strong or excellent"
Having launched the series with the Gracemere story, the second Snapshot we are introducing is from Moorditj Noongar Community College, WA, a school with approximately 140 indigenous students enrolled from K-7.

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