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Technology is rapidly changing the ways we live our lives and interact with the world. It also provides new ways to help children learn. Educators can use technology tools to create and capture meaningful experiences, support inquiry, and expand classroom walls. This CD-ROM contains eight PowerPoint presentations that support your staff development workshops, college courses, or in-service trainings and provide information to help pre-service and practicing educators explore and reflect on the possibilities of various technologies.The CD-ROM includes An overview of using technology tools in the classroom A two-part presentation on supporting children’s learning with technology A two-part presentation on using technology to share learning A two-part presentation on using technology to support documentation and assessment A presentation on curriculum mapping Facilitator’s guide and printable journaling worksheet for each presentation

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Technology is moving faster than teachers and children can keep up with. Teaching in the Digital Age for Preschool and Kindergarten guides teachers toward integrating technology across the curriculum so it can have an authentic, meaningful, and developmentally appropriate impact on children’s exploration and learning. Full of strategies and stories, photographs and videos, this book provides a clear picture of how to integrate technology that will expand awareness and ignite the teacher’s excitement. This book will help teachers make well-informed decisions about when, how, and why they use technology and media with young children in preschool and kindergarten. Organized by discipline— including science, math, literacy, art, social studies, health and safety, physical education, and music it will motivate teachers to dig deeper into each area to see the many ways technology and digital media can support and strengthen children’s learning, as well as documentation and assessment.

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