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Victoria B. Fantozzi
Digital Tools for Learning, Creating, and Thinking: Developmentally Appropriate Strategies for Early Childhood Educators - Developmentally Appropriate Strategies for Early Childhood Educators
English · Paperback / Softback
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Description
Children are growing up with technologies as part of their daily lives at home and in school. For educators, it is important to understand how to use technologies to promote learning in developmentally appropriate ways. This book helps you make thoughtful, informed decisions that will enhance what you are already doing to support children's learning. Learn how to use technologies in ways that build on, not detract from, the learning children gain through play introduce technologies using a gradual release of responsibility model, foster children's storytelling, reflection, early coding skills, and more; use technologies to enrich your partnerships with families and invite them into the classroom community; work with colleagues to develop a digital culture that supports the program's goals; with the guidance in this book, you'll be able to evaluate technologies and understand how to put them to their best uses in your program.
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About the author
Victoria B. Fantozzi, PhD, is a professor of early childhood and childhood education at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, where she teaches courses in emergent literacies, early childhood foundations, and research methods. Since 2015, she has partnered with schools to empower teachers to make intentional decisions about integrating technologies into their classroom practice. Her research on developmentally appropriate technologies has been published in Young Children, The Reading Teacher, and the Journal of Early Childhood Research, and she was a contributor to the fourth edition of Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8. Dr. Fantozzi lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, two sons, and cat and hedgehog. This is her first book.
Summary
Helping Children Create, Collaborate, and Communicate—with Technology
Children are growing up with technologies as part of their daily lives at home and in school. For educators, it is important to understand how to use technologies to promote learning in developmentally appropriate ways. This book helps you make thoughtful, informed decisions that will enhance what you are already doing to support children’s learning. Learn how to
- Use technologies in ways that build on, not detract from, the learning children gain through play
- Introduce technologies using a gradual release of responsibility model
- Foster children’s storytelling, reflection, early coding skills, and more
- Use technologies to enrich your partnerships with families and invite them into the classroom community
- Work with colleagues to develop a digital culture that supports the program’s goals
With the guidance in this book, you’ll be able to evaluate technologies and understand how to put them to their best uses in your program.
Foreword
This book will be promoted via various NAEYC marketing efforts, including social media pages promotions (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest with a reach of over 200K followers); promotional emails; advertisements in Young Children, Teaching Young Children, and Exchange magazines; and NAEYC’s seasonal resource catalogs. Select authors of the publication will also present a webinar on a topic covered in the book soon after its publication. Finally, the publication will be advertised and sold at various early childhood conferences and trade shows (NAEYC’s Annual Conferences, NAEYC’s Professional Learning Institutes, Zero to Three, etc.).
Product details
| Authors | Victoria B. Fantozzi |
| Publisher | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Languages | English |
| Product format | Paperback / Softback |
| Released | 24.05.2022 |
| EAN | 9781952331046 |
| ISBN | 978-1-952331-04-6 |
| No. of pages | 112 |
| Dimensions | 200 mm x 258 mm x 5 mm |
| Weight | 284 g |
| Illustrations | 5 photos and 4-color figures and charts |
| Subjects |
Humanities, art, music
> Education
> School education, didactics, methodology
EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten), Teaching skills & techniques, Curriculum planning & development, Pre-school & kindergarten |
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