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Joyful Explorations Outdoors

Winter Beach These days it often seems that many children’s leisure time is increasingly structured and organised, with less time for them to initiate their own play. It appears that although our modern lifestyles open up new opportunities for children, … Continue reading

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Killer Rex

Outside our classroom there is a huge construction of a tyrannosaurus rex. This model represents the culmination of 6 months sustained effort by one child. In an earlier post, Inspiration Zen, I wrote about ways in which I was considering the presentation … Continue reading

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What do mermaids listen to?

Considering the use of i-Pads in an early childhood setting Course #4 – Technology: A Catalyst for Learning Research based best practice for the embedded use of technology for learning will be shared and practiced. The focus will be on … Continue reading

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Firm Foundations

This week I have been reading, ‘A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future’ by Daniel Pink. Daniel Pink is a man who provides analysis of business trends and he lectures to corporations, associations and universities around the world … Continue reading

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The Importance of Play

Of course being an Early Childhood Teacher I have spent many years researching the importance of play and observing the children in my settings to develop my understanding of how children develop, refine and continually adapt their theories of how … Continue reading

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Progettazionne

- a verb, stemming from the Italian, which connotes a meaning of projection or ‘to project’. Although there maybe intentions set out by the teachers and the children, has the possibility of being modified and negotiated along the inward journey … Continue reading

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The Everlasting Magic of Letters

I am still thinking about sensitive and worthwhile infusions of technology in our ELC.  The documentation below illustrates a series of encounters that could have used technology, albeit to do ‘old things in new ways’, as described by Utecht, yet … Continue reading

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Inspiration Zen

Course 3 final project: To apply some of the Presentation Zen principles in my pedagogical documentation to make the learning of young children visible. My intention is to create a movie with accompanying paper documentation to tell the story of … Continue reading

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Early Dialogues with Digital Media

“We have to give closer attention to the process of learning through the digital media. The digital experience is much too often exhausted simply in its function and technical form. In addition to this technical aspect, if it is also … Continue reading

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Visual Materials: Learning from children

    Our Early Learning Setting holds great importance to the power of aesthetics in learning. Vea Vecchi defines aesthetic thought as,   “Aesthetic thought is transversal to various languages and disciplines. It uses expressivity to bring a language of … Continue reading

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