Learning Through ICT

Activities for Implementing Effective ICT ICT RolePlay How to Use a Digital Camera and Paint Package to Disguise a Face ICT Using a Cassette Player ICT Using a Bee Bot ICT Using a Keyboard or Music Mat ICT Using Remote Control Toys How to use a Bee bot and Book to Plan a Story Route

Early Years Practitioners should;

• Provide a range of playthings that attract babies' attention, including battery-operated mobiles and wind-up radios.
• Talk about the effect of children's actions, as they investigate what things can do.
• Provide safe equipment to play with such as torches, transistor radios and karaoke machines.
• When out in the locality, ask children to help to press the button at the pelican crossing, or speak into the intercom to tell somebody you have come back to the setting.
• Teach and encourage children to click on different icons to cause things to happen on a computer.
• Provide a range of programmable toys.
• Provide equipment involving ICT, such as computers.

• Encourage children to show each other how to use ICT equipment.

EYFS:2007 KUW: ICT Learning Map pg 82-83

Give opportunities for the use of ICT to develop skills across the areas of learning, for example a talking word processor to develop language and communication, vocabulary and writing, talking books for early reading, a paint program to develop early mark making, a telephone for speaking and listening, CD-Roms, video and television and musical tapes to find out about things...