How to support Play with Digital Technology in Early Childhood Education today
Price: $360
$46 AUD per month as an Academy member
You will learn how to support play based learning in early childhood education with digital technology that will respond to a child's capabilities and learning needs. This course is NOT about understanding digital play research, but IS about providing you with the 'practical and immediately actionable" strategies and steps that you can APPLY today and which is derived from the current research on digital play in the early years.
Learning Outcomes:
- Overcome barriers to play-based learning
- Understand digital play in the early years
- Apply digital storytelling to promote literacy
- Promote learning without failure
- Support outdoor play with digital technologies
- Plan effectively for play-based learning
- Link HITS to play-based learning
- Faciliate play-based pedagogy in early childhood learning environments
- Observe and assess digital play-based learning
- Reflect on your experience and make the appropriate changes for the future.
Aligned with the EYLF and EYFS
Aligned with APST 2.4.2 & 3.4.6
10 hours of Elective PD
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Harness the Potential of Technology in Early Childhood Education Today (Full Course)
Price: $360
$46 AUD per month as an Academy member
This online PD for early childhood educators and carers delivers practical and immediately actionable advice on how to plan, teach and assess technology integration in the early learning environment. You will learn the expertise you need in order to lay the foundations for technological literacy and ICT capability in meaningful subject-related contexts.
Learning Outcomes:
- Conduct a thorough analysis of the situation so that you can effectively plan your educational path
- Embed methods of observation and assessment that will inform your planning in technology integration and enable you to pass on meaningful information in transition statements
- Select developmentally appropriate ICT tools for learning so that each one will make a positive impact in child learning and empower young children in their technological surroundings
- Employ sound instructional decisions that will further enable you to respond to their technology skills, abilities, knowledge and interest
- Implement STEM activities that incorporate and develop technological capabilities in numeracy and science learning.
- Creatively encourage the use of technology through timely intervention and demonstration of ICT skills
- Implement a Universal framework for Inclusion with Technology with everyday strategies that will enable all children to learn
- Feel empowered in your capabilities in ICT by gaining the expertise you need to make a difference and building on your own capacity as an ECE practitioner
11 hours of PD addressing 2.6.2, 3.4.2, 3.2.2, 4.5.2 and 5.1.2.
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How to Apply Technology Teaching Strategies in Early Childhood Education
Price: $80
You will learn how to build on the home technology experiences of young children in your care by making sound instructional decisions that will support children's ICT capability and ICT literacy along with providing opportunities to use ICT as a tool to support their learning.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand early childhood pedagogies in ICT
- Teach technology to preschoolers
2 hours of CPD - $41 AUD per month as an Academy member
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Observation in Early Childhood Education
Price: $80
You will learn an integrated system of assessment that will make it easier for you to make judgements about the conceptual and procedural technological knowledge of young children. Gain additional expertise in observation that will take you beyond just commenting on whether a child had completed technological work in transition statements.
Learning Outcomes:
- Plan for progression and continuity
- Monitor and intervene at the appropriate times
- Involve parents assessment
- Document ICT learning
- Provide feedback to children
2 hour of Online PD. $41 AUD per month as an Academy member
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Nurturing Creativity in Early Childhood Education (Graphics Programs)
Price: $80
You will learn how to implement open-minded and meaningful ICT experiences that support your pedagogy and understanding by exploring creative opportunities in your learning environment and developing a hands-on learning approach.
2 hour Online PD addressing 2.6.2 and 3.4.2.
$41 AUD per month as an Academy member
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Science and Technology in Early Childhood Education
Price: $65.99
You will learn how to successfully integrate technology in early science lessons by applying key strategies and selecting developmentally appropriate tools and resources that meet the learning and development needs.
2 hour of PD addressing 2.6.2 and 3.4.2 of APST
$41 AUD per month as an Academy member
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How to Enhance Mathematics in Early Childhood Education with Technology?
Price: $80
You will learn how to successfully integrate digital technology to facilitate and enhance the learning of mathematics by applying sound instructional strategies in your early learning environment today.
What you will learn:
- The relationship between ICT and numeracy.
- Planning a maths lesson when ICT is involved.
- Scaffolding in early childhood learning environments
- Teacher knowledge of ICT tools.
- Developing digital literacy.
- Choosing DAP technology.
- Whole class teaching.
- Using computers and other digital technologies.
$41 AUD per month as an Academy member
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Computers in Early Childhood Education
Price: $65.99
You will learn with ease how to maximise the use of computers in your early learning environment by making sound instructional decisions and employing structured learning activities in an environment that will promote equitable opportunities in key learning areas of the curriculum and foster the development of ICT capability today.
$41 AUD per month as an Academy member
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Planning in Early Childhood Education
Price: $80
You will learn how to effectively plan for digital play-based learning by applying sound instructional decisions in your early childhood learning environment that will ensure that digital technology is viewed as a tool to enhance and support teaching and learning. Thread the digital technologies into the early learning goals and early play experiences to improve the quality and effectiveness of learning today.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand why planning is important in ECE
- Develop an understanding of ICT resources
- Apply early learning goals with digital resources
- Promote progression in capabilities
- Inform your planning by understanding relationships
- Plan to challenge children with digital resources
- Plan digital storytellling
- Consider appropriate uses of digital resources
- Match digital resources to intended learning.