Pre-K students will open and navigate basic software for the purpose of learning. Most schools will use software applications such as interactive books or other interactive programs teaching various introductory academic skills.
Child uses and names a variety of technology hardware devices. The children are exposed to and learn what the basic components are of technology in the classroom such as the keyboard, a mouse, a monitor.
Child operates voice/sound recorders and touch screens. The students will use the touch screens and the voice components to interact with the software they are using.
Child uses software applications to create and express their own ideas. Even in the pre-literate stage of Pre-k, the children will create images for communication.
Child recognizes that information is available through technology. Because the computers are used in a variety of ways as individual students and through the teacher's implementation of technology in the lessons, the students will recognize technology as an instrument of learning.
The spiraling and dynamic nature of the technology standards and TEKS are evident when one analyzes the skills required at the Pre-K level, because they mirror the same skills being developed all the way through grade 12, but only in a more intricate and demanding manner. Where the Pre-K student is recognizing that technology is a great source of information, the 12th grade student is evaluating the information given for potential bias, validity, and copyright issues. The younger student is just beginning to utilize technology to create or express ideas. The advanced students must create elaborate presentations including multiple forms of media.
Because of the spiraling nature of the technology standards, the students have multiple opportunities to demonstrate mastery of those skills. Presentations of the simplest kind begin as Pre-K students express their ideas. As they progress through elementary school, they are introduced to more forms of software for their presentations. Then as they are in middle school, they begin to layer the media forms so that they have multi-media presentations. By high school they are to become proficient in their abilities to create presentations and can alter them to their intended audience.
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As a college student, and a future educator, I believe your post about technology being introduced, to children at such an early age is very interesting. I was educated in a very small school and in elementary, we did not have the privilege of using much technology. However, if we were introduced to things such as computers and other technical machinery, we would have in my opinion, been more prepared for high school. Technology as we all know, plays a very decisive role in the way students, in today's classrooms learn. The world today is controlled by technology. We see students of young age groups, becoming more involved with technology. I believe that allowing to add the use of technology, in the curriculum in elementary schools, is by far a geat idea. In college most of your assignments are turned in and posted online. When the student is comfortable with using technology, he or she has a better chance of understanding what his or her instructor wants. In the work force today, technology, plays a huge role. When we teach our students how to use different types of technology, all we are doing, is teaching them material they will need to know in order to be sucessful in their career. That is what a teach is for correct? To enhance his or her students minds, to prepare them for the "Real world". Great blog!!!
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