ICT in the Early Years (Learning and Teaching With Information and Communications Technology) - Hardcover

Reseña del editor

"This thought-provoking book demonstrates that the application of technology in the delivery of the curriculum is so much more than this and should give early year’s educators confidence and encouragement to develop their own ideas in using ICT in innovative and imaginative ways."
Lynn Kennington, Early Education newsletter

• How can computers and other ICT applications be most effectively used to support learning in early years settings?
• Why is it important that young children use ICT in ways which are playful, creative and explorative?
• What research has been carried out about young children using computers and ICT, and what does this tell us?

Biografía del autor

Mary Hayes was an early years teacher for twenty years and successfully integrated computers into a vertically grouped open plan situation in the days when software was loaded from a tape recorder! She now teaches at Nottingham Trent University where she teaches ICT on undergraduate and graduate courses and enjoys the time she is able to spend in school working and researching alongside children and teachers. Her research has recently focused on European links and work with communications technology with early years pupils.