• Carrie Kosmicki• Amy Zgoda• Nicole Whitley• Darci Larson• Laura Bazant

• Computers in Individual and Group Learning

• Computer Enriched Classrooms• Internet Advantages in the

Classroom• Educational Software Programs

• Advantages of Computers in the Classroom

• Individual Potential

• Group Interaction

• Computers allow students to gain individual attention in large group

• Free teachers from other responsibilities so they can assist students

• Students have the support necessary to progress at own rates (DAP)

• Allow for easier integration of different subjects

• Competition

• More Time for Individual Progress

• Both Individual and Group Activities Simultaneously

• Strengthening of Group Skills

• Groups as a Whole

•Integration

•Teacher Roles

• Respects the interrelationships of the disciplines

• Children Should Exercise all of the Developmental or Curricular Domains

• Activities Should be Chosen Based on the Desire to Further Explore Specific Concepts

• Teacher Would Then Determine the Most Effective Medium for Supporting Activities Selected

• Instructor

• Coach

• Model

• Critic

• Computers integrated into the classroom must be applied to real problems and real purposes.

• Children will gain the most valuable skill, the ability to use computers as learning tools.

• Virtual Field Trip

• Global Communication

• Publishing

• Interactive Activities

• Brings the environment to your students

• Saves Money• Visit Besty Ross’ House

http://www.libertynet.org/iha/betsy/house/intro.html

• Explore sea life at http://www.Viewseum.com/sea_life/quantumleap2.html

• Opens the classroom doors to people across the globe

• Communicating with others in distant places

• Monster, Monster, Monster http://www.2cyberlinks.com/monster.html

• Observation• Web Sites

– Education by Design: http://www.edbydesign.com/kidsact.html

– Kidpub: http://www.Kidpub.org/kidpub/

• What should be included in an interactive web site

• Simulated learning experience• Compared to software• Websites

– Light: http://www.imaginengine.com/dark

– Sounds: http://www.kids-space.org:80/HPT/menu.html

•Age appropriate software

•Developmentally appropriate software

•Culturally Appropriate Software

• Compelling for young children

• Sounds and graphics gain their attention

• Software can be age appropriate starting at 2 Years of age

• Should engage children in active creative play, mastery learning, problem solving and conversation

• should grow in dimension with the child

• teacher’s must match children to their own abilities.

• Technology can be used to reflect a child’s diverse cultures, languages and ethnic heritages

• Should portray diverse family settings and experiences

• Promotes positive social values

• nonviolent ways to correct mistakes or wrong answers

• promotes a positive representation of gender, cultural and linguistic diversity

• Fisher Price Ready for School

• JumpStart Math for Kindergartners

• Dr. Seuss Kindergarten

• Activities

• Educational Value

• Kid Appeal

• Activities

• Educational Value

• Kid Appeal

• Activities

• Educational Value

• Kid Appeal

• The Education Digest, Nov 1999• Http://www.kidsource.com/kidssource/

content2/Integrate.computers.html• Early Childhood Education Journal, Vol. 27

No. 2, 1999 pg. 109-114• Http://www.naeyc.org/about/

about_index.htm• Http://www.superkids.com