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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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Aesthetics of the Digital Landscapes: Emergent Lands of Possibility and Transformation
Our challenge as teachers, educators, leaders is to see how the digital landscape can create new ways of expressing and constructing knowledge rather than replicating current ways of communication and expression. I for one am keen to explore these possibilities with our youngest of children, for they are born into it and cannot afford to…
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Pedagogy of the Digital World
My current area of research is upon the creative and expressive uses of digital languages and tools in the early childhood arena of education. For children with whom I am working with now, they are immersed into this digital rich context of social media, coding, research, platforms, and hacks, where books are downloaded and games…
Debi Keyte-Hartland 