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Drawing and Young Children: Re-Connecting With Our Own Poetic Languages
I was privileged last week to be invited to run a workshop about drawing, teaching and young children. My work began by collecting many different types of drawing media (inks, watercolours, charcoal, soft pastels, oil pastel, pencil crayons of different varieties, aqua crayons, non permanent and permanent markers, graphite, charcoal pencils to name a few. …
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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…
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Materials and Contexts: Thoughts about materials, learning in the context of Dakar
Materials and Contexts: Thoughts about materials, learning in the context of Senegal I have blogged before about the nature of Intelligent Materials – the idea that materials have inherent qualities and are neither neutral or devoid of suggestion or empathy with certain kinds of ideas and ways of using them. Here in Senegal, or rather…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 