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The One Hundred Languages of Children
“The One Hundred Languages is a metaphor for the extraordinary potentials of children, their knowledge-building and creative processes, the myriad forms with which life is manifested and knowledge is constructed. The hundred languages are understood as having the potential to be transformed and multiplied in the cooperation and interaction between the languages, among the children, and…
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Technology in Early Childhood Education: Tools and Languages
If we are to develop new pedagogical approaches that value digital and technological ‘tools’ as capable of expressive and creative potential then we must look to the digital landscape as a range of possible languages rather than ‘tools’. In this, I mean, how can we view digital languages as poetic and aesthetic, as a means…
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Meaning-Making and Digital Languages. Technology as a Creative and Expressive Language: New Research
The digital environment is often offered to children as a tool to find and consume information and as a fun and interactive way to develop skills and techniques though games. Often, iPads are used by teachers in increasing ways for assessment systems and record keeping – a one stop shop for teaching and measuring. For…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 